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QICID: 15110
Title: The Age of Tukey
Copyright: 2001, ASQ and American Statistical Association
Author: Thompson, James R.
Organization: Rice University, Houston, TX
Subject: Graphics,Educators,History,Tukey, John W.,Time series,Statistics,Higher education,Creativity,Data analysis;
Series: Technometrics, Vol. 43, No. 3, August 2001, pp. 256-265
Abstract: [This abstract is based on the author's abstract.] John Tukey ushered in a new era of statistics. He questioned the Fisherian assumptions of regular uncertainty and gave insight into the irregularity of the real world. Whereas Fisher taught that statistics could be mathematically modeled to a point where one could seek optimal solutions to fairly well-proposed problems, Tukey showed a world in which most of the old assumptions were open to question. His life's work consisted largely in discovering how to collect and analyze data, and in teaching us how to cope with a world in which there is not only uncertainty, but uncertainty about uncertainty.
Number of pages: 10
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