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of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics was dedicated to the memory of
Abraham Wald. Its opening articles, prepared by Wolfowitz (1952), Menger
(1952), and Tintner (1952) detailed the life and career of Wald.

Epilogue

It will be safe to say that we have already included too many citations in
this section. Yet, it is possible, however, that we have left out the references
of some important historical volumes or documents. But, for a reader who is
just beginning to get interested in the history of statistics, a very long list of
references will probably do more harm than good. As a starter, the following
narrower list will hopefully serve a reader better:
R. A. Fisher, The Life of a Scientist, by Joan Fisher Box (1978)
Neyman from Life, by Constance Reid (1982)
The Making of Statisticians, edited by Joe Gani (1982)
American Contributions to Mathematical Statistics in the Nineteenth Cen-
tury, edited by Steve Stigler (1980)
The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900,
by Steve Stigler (1986)
Glimpses of India’s Statistical Heritage, edited by J. K. Ghosh, S. K. Mitra,
and K. R. Parthasarathy (1992)

Enjoy and Celebrate Statistics by Learning Its History

14.3 Selected Statistical Tables

This section provides some of the standard statistical tables. These were pre-
pared with the help of MAPLE.
Tables 14.3.1a-14.3.1b correspond to the distribution function of a stan-
dard normal distribution. Tables 14.3.2, 14.3.3 and 14.3.4 respectively corre-
spond to the percentage points of the Chi-square, Student’s t, and F distribu-
tion. One may look at Lindley and Scott (1995) or other sources for more
extensive sets of tables like these.

14.3.1 The Standard Normal Distribution Function
In the Tables 14.3.1a and 14.3.1b, the first column and row respectively
designate the “first” and “second” decimal points of z. Let us suppose that