Connections, Context, and Community: Abraham Wald and the Sequential Probability Ratio Test

Hunter, Patti Wilger

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“…The solution Amerine and Roessler proposed – sequential analysis – was drawn from wartime attempts to make statistical hypothesis testing more efficient for industry. Sequential analysis had been developed in large part by Abraham Wald at Columbia University in the 1940s under a classified Defense Department contract (Hunter, 2004; Statistical Research Group, 1945; Wald, 1947). Along with game theory – about which Wald was familiar, as it was developed by some of his close associates – sequential analysis was a method of making decisions under conditions of limited knowledge.…”

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The taste machine: Sense, subjectivity, and statistics in the California wine world

Phillips

2016

Soc Stud Sci

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This article is about mid-20th-century attempts to turn subjective judgments about the quality and composition of wine into objective knowledge. It focuses on the research of Maynard Amerine at the University of California, Davis, and his project to formalize the procedures of sensory evaluation. Using controlled experimental conditions, Amerine and colleagues transcribed judgments about taste into numbers that could then be aggregated and analyzed statistically. Through such techniques, they claimed to be able to turn subjectivities into objectivities, rendering private taste sensations into reliable and stable facts about objects in the world.

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The taste machine: Sense, subjectivity, and statistics in the California wine world

Phillips

2016

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Sequential Probability Ratio Test

Piegorsch¹

2018

Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online

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The Collapse of Interwar Vienna: Oskar Morgenstern's Community, 1925–50

Leonard¹

2011

History of Political Economy

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law and economics; the theory of general equilibrium; the field of economic development; and the theory of games.Intellectual life in Vienna in the early 20 th century was intensely "social". This is not to say that there prevailed an atmosphere of harmonious cooperation -far from it -but, rather, that intellectuals and academics, and artists too, depended upon one other for stimulus and affirmation. A pervasive feeling of anxiety; the close geographical confinement; the lack of anonymity; the presence of a cultivated elite; and existence of a lively public sphere in which politics, science and culture were objects of serious attention; all of these features made for a setting in which intellectual and artistic circles flourished. Because of the cultivation and curiosity of those involved, these groups often overlapped, with individuals participating in several at a time. While some of the gatherings were devoted to one particular discipline, discussion in many others ranged across several fields. In many such circles, even the scientific ones, discussion was not the purview of academics alone: whether at the café, the formal seminar or the public lecture, educated laymen mixed freely with university teachers. Thus, for example, when, in the mid -1930's, mathematician Karl Menger twice raised money for his impecunious students by organising short series of public lectures, on subjects including physics, biology and the social sciences, he did so in the knowledge that the Viennese would pay to come hear Werner Heisenberg and others speak.

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Connections, Context, and Community: Abraham Wald and the Sequential Probability Ratio Test

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

The taste machine: Sense, subjectivity, and statistics in the California wine world

The taste machine: Sense, subjectivity, and statistics in the California wine world

Sequential Probability Ratio Test

The Collapse of Interwar Vienna: Oskar Morgenstern's Community, 1925–50

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