agresti's book ( forget which one. there are two ) has an appendix about the history of categorical data that i remember being quite interesting. that's the only one i know of.
On Jun 18, 2009, Michael <comtech....@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, I apologize for this off-topic question but I need your help -- I know there are lots of experts here. As a lover and student of statistics, I am thinking of building a tree of various branches of statistics and keeping track of the greatest historical inventions/discoveries in statistics and the latest development of each branch. The goal is to understand in what context did the great inventions come out and then try to follow the greatest minds in terms of creating future significant inventions/discoveries in the statistics field... This is the "learn-from-the-greatest-minds" approach. Could anybody give me some pointers about existing books/articles about the greatest inventions/discoveries in statistics? And topic list? Thanks a lot! ______________________________________________ [1]r-h...@r-project.org mailing list [2]https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide [3]http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. References 1. mailto:R-help@r-project.org 2. https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help 3. http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.