An Unofficial Community: American Mathematical Statisticians before 1935

Hunter, Patti Wilger

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“…After 1920, a number of mathematicians in the United States were drawn to work in statistics. Among the historians of this era, Hogg (1986), Hunter (1996, 1999), and Stigler (1996) together have more than adequately covered the penetration of the study of statistics into the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. Here the object is to look only at Karl Pearson's influence.…”

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Karl Pearson's Influence in the United States

Bellhouse¹

2009

Int Statistical Rev

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Karl Pearson, the founder of mathematical statistics, was the leading statistical researcher from the 1890s up to about 1920. His interests were wide-ranging and so his impact on statistics in the United States was also wide-ranging. Many American researchers came to University College London to study with him. Others studied his work from afar. In the United States, Pearsonian statistics first penetrated the academic landscape in biology. This was soon followed by the fields of economics and psychology. It was not until relatively late in Pearson's career that several American mathematicians took up statistics as a serious research topic. Copyright (c) 2009 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2009 International Statistical Institute.

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Section: Mathematical Statistics After 1920mentioning

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Karl Pearson's Influence in the United States

Bellhouse¹

2009

Int Statistical Rev

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“…Yet, the mathematical sophistication of the former put it out of reach for a vast majority of the members of the centennial American Statistical Association -that is to say, for the average American statistician of that time (Hunter 1999) 4 . Hotelling and his students would thus lead the way in the reform of the profession, partly by settling a new paradigm of excellence in statistical research (Darnell 1988).…”

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Milton Friedman, the Statistical Methodologist

Teira¹

2007

History of Political Economy

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In this paper I study Milton Friedman's statistical education, paying special attention to the different methodological approaches (Fisher, Neyman and Savage) to which he was exposed. I contend that these statistical procedures involved different views as to the evaluation of statistical predictions. In this light, the thesis defended in Friedman's 1953 methodological essay appears substantially ungrounded. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:Thorough comments by D. Gillies, D. Hammond, K. Hoover, U. Mäki, S. Stigler, J. Urrutia and J. Zamora are gratefully acknowledged. This research was funded by the grant BF2003-04372 and the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation. The usual disclaimer on intellectual responsibility applies.

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“… 45 For example, in an overview of statistical work in Britain published in 1930, Harold Hotelling wrote, “Modern statistical theory originated in England, and is today advancing faster there than in any other country” (Hotelling 1930, 186). For some details on Americans studying statistics in Britain, see Hunter 1999.…”

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Gertrude Cox in Egypt: A Case Study in Science Patronage and International Statistics Education during the Cold War

Hunter

2009

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ArgumentGertrude Cox, first chair of North Carolina State University's Department of Experimental Statistics, worked as a consultant for the Ford Foundation to Cairo University's Institute of Statistical Studies and Researches in 1964. An analysis of this work provides a case study in the internationalization of the statistics profession, the systems of patronage available to scientists in the second half of the twentieth century, and the history of women in science. It highlights some of the complexities in the process of internationalization in science, showing that even when scientists cross national boundaries to promote their discipline, they may have as a goal the advancement of their own nationalistic interests, or those of their patrons. In documenting Cox's commitment to serving her professional community, this case study will show that some particularly feminine qualities of Cox's approach to her work enabled her to accomplish what her male colleagues tried unsuccessfully to do.

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An Unofficial Community: American Mathematical Statisticians before 1935

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Karl Pearson's Influence in the United States

Karl Pearson's Influence in the United States

Milton Friedman, the Statistical Methodologist

Gertrude Cox in Egypt: A Case Study in Science Patronage and International Statistics Education during the Cold War

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