Search Results - "Stigler, M."
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Plant‐based enveloped Ara h 2 bioparticles display exceptional hypo‐allergenicity
Published in Clinical and experimental allergy (01-05-2023)Get full text
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Studies in the history of probability and statistics, L: Karl Pearson and the Rule of Three
Published in Biometrika (01-03-2012)“…Karl Pearson's role in the transformation that took the 19th century statistics of Laplace and Gauss into the modern era of 20th century multivariate analysis…”
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Bayesian issues in the 1950s: an episode involving Karl Popper and Jimmie Savage
Published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in society (17-05-2024)“…Abstract In the 1950s, the growing importance of Bayesian inference attracted both supporters and critics. In 1958, the philosopher Karl Popper published what…”
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Scientific progress despite irreproducibility: A seeming paradox
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (13-03-2018)“…It appears paradoxical that science is producing outstanding new results and theories at a rapid rate at the same time that researchers are identifying serious…”
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Regression towards the mean, historically considered
Published in Statistical methods in medical research (01-06-1997)“…The simple yet subtle concept of regression towards the mean is reviewed historically. Verbal, geometric, and mathematical expressions of the concept date to…”
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Richard Price, the First Bayesian
Published in Statistical science (01-02-2018)“…Roughly half of Bayes's famous essay was written by Richard Price, including the Appendix with all of the numerical examples. A study of this Appendix reveals…”
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The Epic Story of Maximum Likelihood
Published in Statistical science (01-11-2007)“…At a superficial level, the idea of maximum likelihood must be prehistoric: early hunters and gatherers may not have used the words "method of maximum…”
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Measuring obesity among school-aged youth in India: A comparison of three growth references
Published in Indian pediatrics (01-02-2011)“…Objective To compare three growth references that can be used to assess the weight status of school-aged youth living in India, with a particular focus on…”
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How did Project Northland reduce alcohol use among young adolescents? Analysis of mediating variables
Published in Health education research (01-02-2001)“…Project Northland is a randomized trial designed to create, implement and evaluate multilevel, community-wide strategies to prevent alcohol use among…”
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The True Title of Bayes's Essay
Published in Statistical science (01-08-2013)“…New evidence is presented that Richard Price gave Thomas Bayes's famous essay a very different title from the commonly reported one.It is argued that this…”
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The Changing History of Robustness
Published in The American statistician (01-11-2010)“…This essay, a reflection upon the changing views of robust statistics from the euphoria of the 1960s to the present day, was given as a keynote address at the…”
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ASA President’s Task Force Statement on Statistical Significance and Replicability
Published in Harvard data science review (30-07-2021)Get full text
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Darwin, Galton and the Statistical Enlightenment
Published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in society (01-07-2010)“…On September 10th, 1885, Francis Galton ushered in a new era of Statistical Enlightenment with an address to the British Association for the Advancement of…”
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Aaron Director Remembered
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Citation Patterns in the Journals of Statistics and Probability
Published in Statistical science (01-02-1994)“…This is a study of the use of citation data to investigate the role statistics journals play in communication within that field and between statistics and…”
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Problematic Unity of Biometrics
Published in Biometrics (01-09-2000)“…The word "biometry" may be less than 200 years old, but it can be argued that work we would now consider biometric dates back even to the pre-Christian era…”
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Is probability easier now than in 1560?
Published in Significance (Oxford, England) (01-12-2015)“…An old problem still presents difficulties, writes Stephen M. Stigler An old problem still presents difficulties, writes Stephen M. Stigler…”
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Karl Pearson's Theoretical Errors and the Advances They Inspired
Published in Statistical science (01-05-2008)“…Karl Pearson played an enormous role in determining the content and organization of statistical research in his day, through his research, his teaching, his…”
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The Digital Approximation of the Binomial by the Poisson
Published in The American statistician (01-02-2013)“…An old source can lead to looking at the Poisson approximation to the binomial in a new light…”
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Why are urban Indian 6th graders using more tobacco than 8th graders? Findings from Project MYTRI
Published in Tobacco control (01-06-2006)“…Objective: To investigate why urban Indian 6th graders may be using more tobacco than urban Indian 8th graders. Design: Cross-sectional survey of students…”
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