TY - JOUR
T1 - Book Review: Seminal Ideas and Controversies in Statistics, by Rod Little. CRC Press. 2025. 223+XVİİİ pp., ISBN 9781032493565
AU - Kumar, Kuldeep
PY - 2026/1/8
Y1 - 2026/1/8
N2 - As the name of the book suggests, Seminal Ideas and Controversies in Statistics by Rod Little is a fascinating and novel kind of book published by Chapman & Hall under its Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability series. Each chapter of the book is based on some seminal ideas and the corresponding papers by eminent statisticians, and other relevant readings are given. The controversies regarding these seminal ideas are also discussed in that chapter. Some of the top celebrated statisticians whose ideas and papers are discussed in the book include Fisher, Neyman, Box, Rubin, Efron, Cox, Tukey, Breiman, etc. Plenty of examples are given in each chapter regarding these seminal ideas and controversies. Each chapter concludes with some thoughtful questions about that seminal idea.
AB - As the name of the book suggests, Seminal Ideas and Controversies in Statistics by Rod Little is a fascinating and novel kind of book published by Chapman & Hall under its Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability series. Each chapter of the book is based on some seminal ideas and the corresponding papers by eminent statisticians, and other relevant readings are given. The controversies regarding these seminal ideas are also discussed in that chapter. Some of the top celebrated statisticians whose ideas and papers are discussed in the book include Fisher, Neyman, Box, Rubin, Efron, Cox, Tukey, Breiman, etc. Plenty of examples are given in each chapter regarding these seminal ideas and controversies. Each chapter concludes with some thoughtful questions about that seminal idea.
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
SN - 0964-1998
SP - 1
EP - 1
JO - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society
JF - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society
ER -