Probability, Statistics and Time: A collection of essays

by M. S. Bartlett

Overview

Some years ago when I. assembled a number of general articles and lectures on probability and statistics, their publication (Essays in Probability and Statistics, Methuen, London, 1962) received a somewhat better reception than I had been led to expect of such a miscellany. I am consequently tempted to risk publishing this second collection, the title I have given it (taken from the first lecture) seeming to me to indicate a coherence in my articles which my publishers might otherwise be inclined to query. As in the first collection, the articles are reprinted chronologically, usually without comment. One exception is the third, not previously published and differing from the original spoken version both slightly where indicated in the text and by the addition of an Appendix. I apologize for the inevitable limitations due to date, and also for any occasional repetition of the discussion (e.g. on Bayesian methods in statistical inference). In particular, readers technically interested in the classification and use of nearest-neighbour models, a topic raised in Appendix II of the fourth article, should also refer to my monograph The Statistical Analysis of Spatial Pattern (Chapman and Hall, London, 1976), where a much more up-to-date account of these models will be found, and, incidentally, a further emphasis, if one is needed, of the common statistical theory of physics and biology. March 1975 M.S.B.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780412222603
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	03/06/1980
Series:	Monographs on Statistics and Applied Pro
Edition description:	1975
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

1. Probability, Statistics and Time (Inaugural lecture at University College, London, on 15 May, 1961).- 2. R. A. Fisher and the last Fifty Years of Statistical Methodology (The first R. A. Fisher Memorial Lecture to be given in the United States, on 29 December, 1964 at Chicago; reprinted from J. Amer. Statist. Ass., 60 (1965), 395–409.).- 3. The Paradox of Probability in Physics (Based on a talk with this title given to a Philosophy of Science Group at University College, London, on 22 May 1967).- 4. Inference and Shastic Processes (Presidential Address to the Royal Statistical Society on 21 June, 1967; reprinted from the Journal of the Society, Al 30, 457–77).- 5. Biomathematics (Inaugural lecture in the University of Oxford, on 28 May 1968).- 6. When is Inference Statistical inference? (Invited paper given at a Symposium on the Foundations of Statistical Inference at Waterloo, Canada, April, 1970; reprinted from the Proceedings of the Symposium, 20–31).- 7. Epidemics (Invited article, first published in Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown Tanur, Judith M., Mosteller, F. et al., (Ed). San Francisco: Holden-Day).- 8. Equations and Models of Population Change (Invited paper given at a Conference on the Mathematical Theory of the Dynamics of Biological Populations, Oxford, September, 1972, subsequently edited by R. W. Hiorns and myself, and published by the Academic Press, 1973).- 9. Some historical remarks and recollections on multivariate analysis (Invited paper given at a Conference on Multivariate Analysis and its Applications at Hull, April, 1973; reprinted from Sankhya, 36B (1974), 107–114.).