Some Memorable Incidents in Probabilistic/Statistical Studies,

Abstract

This paper has been prepared for delivery as an opening address at a Symposium at Chapel Hill, N.C., intended to honor Professor Wassily Hoeffding. The contents of the paper are summarized in the titles of its five chapters marked with Roman numerals II to VI, as follows: II. The Cramer-Hoeffding reseach incident (= the importance the theory of large deviations initiated by Cramer for the asymptotic theory of statistical tests). III. Two different strategies in mathematical statistics. IV. The Yule-Polya research incident: mechanism of a natural phenomenon, and non-identifiability. V. Some modern recurrences of the Yule-Polya problem. VI. Effort at an optimal competitor to the K. P.'s chi square test. Possibly, the most important unresolved problem is that of the residual non-identifiability of the serial sacrifice experimental design, discussed in Chapter V. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA070023

Entities

People

  • Jerzy Neyman

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Chi Square Test
  • Data Science
  • Distribution Functions
  • Electric Generators
  • Experimental Design
  • Health
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Science
  • Laboratory Animals
  • Markov Chains
  • Probability
  • Public Health
  • Random Variables
  • Statistical Tests
  • Statistics
  • Stochastic Processes

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

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  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Neurological Diseases/Conditions/Disorders
  • Statistical inference.