Biometrika One Hundred Years

The year 2001 marks the centenary of Biometrika, one of the world's leading academic journals in statistical theory and methodology. In celebration of this, the book brings together two sets of papers from the journal. The first comprises seven specially commissioned articles (authors: D.R. Cox, A.C. Davison, Anthony C. Atkinson and R.A. Bailey, David Oakes, Peter Hall, T.M.F. Smith, and Howell Tong). These articles review the history of the journal and the most important contributions made by appearing in the journal in a number of important areas of statitisical activity, including general theory and methodology, surveys and time sets. In the process the papers describe the general development of statistical science during the twentieth century. The second group of ten papers are a selection of particularly seminal articles form the journal's first hundred years. The book opens with an introduction by the editors Professor D.M. Titterington and Sir David Cox.

Preface; Part 1- Special EditionD.R.Cox: Biometrika: The first 100 years; A.C.Davison: Biometrika Centenary: Theory and general methodology; A.C.Atkinson & R.A.Bailey: One hundered years of the design of experiments on and off the pages of Biometrika; David Oakes: Biometrika Centenary: Survival analysis; Peter Hall: Biometrika Centenary: Nonparametrics; T.M.F.Smith: Biometrika Centenary: Sample surveys; Howell Tong: A personal journey through time series in Biometrika; Part 2 - selected papersF.Yates (1939): The comparative advantages of systemic and randomized arrangements in the design of agricultural and biological experiments; H.E.Daniels (1944): The relation between measures of correlation in the universe of sample permutations; R.L.Plackett & J.Burman (1946): The design of optimum multifactorial experiments; M.S.Bartlett (1950): Periodogram analysis and continous spectra; P.Whittle (1954): On stationary processes in the plane; M.Quenouille (1956): Notes on bias estimation; E.S.Pearson (1968): Studies in the history of probability and statistics. XX. Some early correspondence between W.S.Gosset, R.A.Fisher and Karl Pearson, with notes and comments; W.K.Hastings (1970): Monte Carlo sampling methods using Markov chains and their applications; K.G.Joreskog (1970): A general method for analysis of covariance structures; I.J.Good & R.A.Gaskin (1971): Nonparametric roughness penalties for probability densities