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14. Appendix 593

(U)MPU test (uniformly) most powerful unbiased test
LR test likelihood ratio test
a ∝ b a and b are proportional
z upper 100a% point of N(0, 1)
a
upper 100a% point of
t upper 100a% point of t
v,α v
F upper 100a% point of F
v 1 ,v 2 ,α v 1 ,v 2

14.2 A Celebration of Statistics: Selected

Biographical Notes

In this section, we add brief biographical notes for selected luminaries in
statistics mentioned in this textbook. Each biography is prepared with the help
of available published materials. In each case, we have cited the original
sources.
The aim is to let the readers appreciate that the field of statistics has devel-
oped, and it continues to flourish, because it attracted some of the best minds
of the twentieth century. What we present here is sketchy. The space is lim-
ited. The list is certainly not exhaustive.
The journal Statistical Science, published by the Institute of Mathemati-
cal Statistics, routinely prints conversation articles of eminent statisticians.
These articles are filled with historical materials. A broader sense of his-
tory will emerge from the additional conversation articles in Statistical
Science: H. Akaike [Findley and Parzen (1995)], T. W. Anderson [De-
Groot (1986b)], G. A. Barnard [DeGroot (1988)], M. Bartlett [Olkin
(1989)], H. Bergström [Råde (1997)], H. Chernoff [Bather(1996)], D.
R. Cox [Reid (1994)], H. Daniels [Whittle (1993)], F. N. David [Laird
(1989)], J. Doob [Snell (1997)], D. J. Finney [MacNeill (1993)], J. Gani
[Heyde(1995)], B. V. Gnedenko [Singpurwalla and Smith (1992)], I. J.
Good [Banks (1996)], S. S. Gupta [McDonald (1998)], M. Hansen [Olkin
(1987)], D. Kendall [Bingham (1996)], L. Kish [Frankel and King (1996)],
C. C. Li [Chen and Tai (1998)], D. V. Lindley [Smith (1995)], S. K.
Mitra [Mukhopadhyay (1997)], Y. V. Prokhorov [Shepp (1992)], F.
Proschan [Hollander and Marshall (1995)], I. R. Savage [Sampson and
Spencer (1999)], E. Seiden [Samuel-Cahn (1992)], H. Solomon [Switzer
(1992)], G. Watson [Beran and Fisher (1998)]. Bellhouse and Genest