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Introduction to Mosteller (1946) On Some Useful “Inefficient” Statistics

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The editors have not done the obvious in selecting this paper. Evidently, they were not put off by its opening words: “Several statistical techniques are proposed for economically analyzing large masses of data by means of punched-card equipment.” Moreover, very little of the paper survives unimproved in current statistical practice. Nevertheless, the author made a number of significant advances, pointed the way to many more, and showed great prescience. The paper, as a result, has been extremely influential and has stimulated much research on order statistics.

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  1. Iowa State University, USA

    H. A. David

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  1. College of Business and Management, University of Maryland at College Park, 20742, College Park, MD, USA

    Samuel Kotz

  2. Department of Statistics Phillips Hall, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Norman L. Johnson

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David, H.A. (1992). Introduction to Mosteller (1946) On Some Useful “Inefficient” Statistics. In: Kotz, S., Johnson, N.L. (eds) Breakthroughs in Statistics. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4380-9_17

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