A Celebration of Statistics: The ISI Centenary Volume A Volume to Celebrate the Founding of the Inte

1. Prediction and Entropy.- 2. Statistical Developments in World War II: An International Perspective.- 3. Statistics in the United Kingdom, 1939-45.- 4. The Fascination of Sand.- 5. International Trends in Official Statistics.- 6. Cohort Analysis in Epidemiology.- 7. Psychiatric Statistics.- 8. Mathematical Models for Infectious Disease Statistics.- 9. Evolutionary Origins of Statisticians and Statistics.- 10. Statistical Computing: What's Past Is Prologue.- 11. Conditional Econometric Modeling: An Application to New House Prices in the United Kingdom.- 12. Large-Scale Social Experimentation in the United States.- 13. The Development of Sample Surveys of Finite Populations.- 14. On Some New Probabilistic Developments of Significance to Statistics: Martingales, Long Range Dependence, Fractals, and Random Fields.- 15. Concepts of Robustness.- 16. Robust Estimators of Location and Their Second-Order Asymptotic Relations.- 17. Mathematical Statistics in the Humanities, and Some Related Problems in Astronomy.- 18. Reflections on the World Fertility Survey.- 19. Economic and Social Statistics for Comparative Assessments.- 20. An Introduction to the Optimum Design of Experiments.- 21. Experimental Design in Russian Practice.- 22. Agricultural Experimentation in a Developing Country.- 23. On the Statistical Analysis of Floods.- 24. Weighted Distributions Arising Out of Methods of Ascertainment: What Population Does a Sample Represent?.- 25. Statistical Problems in Crop Forecasting.- Author Index.