[R] [Repost][Off Topic] Pointers needed for breakthrough in statistics

[Ravi Varadhan]

This gives a failrly long list:

http://www.amazon.com/Books-history-Probability-Statistics/lm/R1WZ9DISAO6OGX
 

Ravi.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------

Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, The Center on Aging and Health

Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology 

Johns Hopkins University

Ph: (410) 502-2619

Fax: (410) 614-9625

Email: rvaradhan at jhmi.edu

Webpage:
http://www.jhsph.edu/agingandhealth/People/Faculty_personal_pages/Varadhan.h
tml

 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------


-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
Behalf Of Michael
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:26 AM
To: r-help
Subject: [R] [Repost][Off Topic] Pointers needed for breakthrough in
statistics

Hi all,

Sorry for the reposting... I was advised to repost this question with more
specific title. I apologize for this off-topic question but I really 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? Here the
"statistics" is in the broad sense, including data-mining, complex data-set,
large data-set, etc. We also want to talk about not only the concepts, but
also the tools and methodologies.

Thanks a lot!

______________________________________________
R-help at 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.