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Statistics has developed as a field through seminal ideas and fascinating controversies. Seminal Ideas and Controversies in Statistics concerns a wide-ranging set of 15 important statistical topics, grouped into three general areas: philosophical approaches to statistical inference, important statistical methodology for applications, and topics on statistical design, focusing on the role of randomization. The key papers on each topic are discussed with commentaries to help explain them. The goal is to expand reader knowledge of the statistics literature and encourage a historical perspective. Features • Discusses a number of important ideas in the history of statistics, including the likelihood principle, Bayes vs. frequentist approaches to inference, alternative approaches to least squares regression, shrinkage estimation, hypothesis testing, and multiple comparisons • Provides a deeper understanding and appreciation of the history of statistics • Discusses disagreements in the literature, whichmake for interesting reading • Gives guidance on various aspects of statistics research by reading good examples in the literature • Promotes the use of good English style in the presentati

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Author

Roderick J. A. Little

Publisher

Chapman and Hall/CRC

Published

2025

Language

EN

ISBN

9781032497174

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics, Stem