Biometrika: One Hundred Years

by D. M. Titterington (Editor), D. R. Cox (Editor)

The year 2001 marks the centenary of Biometrika, one of the world's leading academic journals in statistical theory and methodology. In celebration of this, the book brings together two sets of papers from the journal. The first are specially commissioned articles that review the history of the journal and the most important contributions made by papers in the journal to a number of important areas of statistical activity, including general theory and methodology, surveys and time sets. The second group are a selection of particularly seminal articles from the journal's first hundred years. In the process these papers give a full description of the general development of statistical science during the twentieth century.

392 pages, Hardcover

First published August 30, 2001

Reviews

[Osiris Oliphant]

some examples of articles that were published in the statistics journal Biometrika (1907ish-1937ish)

-The Relationship Between the Weight of the Seed Planted and the Characteristics of the Plant Produced.
-Histological examination of the case of Albinism. With a Note on Internal Albinism.
-Albinism in Dogs.
-A biometric study of one hundred and ten Asiatic mandibles.
-The fundamental problem of practical statistics.
-Hereditary Entropian and Hereditary Changes in the Skin of the Eyelids. With plates.
-Measurements of Macedonian Men.
-On the variations in personal equation and the correlation of successive judgements.
-A study of the variations in the female pelvis, based on observations made on 217 specimens of the American Indian Squaw. Awarded the Boylston Medical Prize Essay, 1912.
-Pigmentation of the hair and eyes of children suffering from the acute fevers, its effect on susceptibility, recuperative power and race selection.
-On the Appearance of Multiple Cases of Disease in the Same House.
-On the Association of Temperature, Pulse and Respiration with Physique and Intelligence in Criminals: a study in criminal anthropometry.
-On an unusual case of Digital anomaly (a thumbless, but five fingered woman). With 5 photographic plates.
-A study of the relations of the brain to the size of the head.
-Hyperspherical Goniometry; and its application to correlation theory for N Variables.
-Dextrality and Sinistrality of Hand and Eye.
-On the degree of relationship between head measurements and reaction time to sight and sound.
-On sentence length as the statistical characteristic of style in prose: with application to 2 cases of disputed authorship.
-On the Inheritance of the Mental and Moral Characters in Man, and its comparison with the inheritance of the physical characters. On the Laws of Inheritance in Man.
-Note on the Skin-colour of the Crosses between Negro and White. With a plate.
-On the relationship of intelligence to size and shape of head, and to other physical and mental characters.
-The Egg of Cuculus Canorus. An attempt to ascertain from the dimensions of the cuckoo's egg if the species is tending to break up into subspecies, each exhibiting a preference for some one foster parent.
-Anthropometric Survey of the Inmates of [Lunatic] Asylums in Scotland TOGETHER WITH The Anthropometric Characteristics of the Inmates of [Lunacy] Asylums in Scotland.
-Split-hand and split-foot deformities, their types, origin, and transmission. TOGETHER WITH On Inheritance of the Deformity known as Split-foot or Lobster-claw by Karl Pearson. With 16 plates.
-A first study of the weight, variability, and correlation of the Human Viscera, with special reference to the healthy and diseased heart.
-Methods of estimating the population of insects in a field.
-The duration of play. The problem and its equations.
-A contribution to the craniology of the Easter Islanders.
-The Lanarkshire Milk Experiment.
-The geometric properties of microscopic configurations. 1; General aspects of projectometry. 2; instance and volume of islands of Langerhans in the pancreas of a monkey.