LARGE COLLECTION OF OFFPRINTS

TUKEY, JOHN. (+) ET AL

Compactness in General Spaces (+)Generalized "Sandwich" Theorems (+) Named and Faceless Values: An Initial Exploration in Memory of Prasanta C. Mahalanobis (+) Some Sèlected Quick and Easy Methods of Statistical Analysis (+) Correlation of Ranges of correlated deviates (+) Where do we go from here? (+) A problem of Berkson, and minimum variance orderly estimators (+) Sums of Random Partitions of Ranks (+) Approcimations to the upper 5% points of Fisher's B distribution... (+) Variances of cariance components: I - III (+) On the comparative anatomy of transformations (+) Keeping moment-like sampling computations simple (+) Average values of mean squares in factorials (+) Multivariate analysis of mineralogic, lithologic, and chemical composition of rock bodies (+) A Rejection Criterion based upon the range (+) Interpolations and approximations related to the normal range (+) Mathematical consultants, computational mathematics and mathematical engineering (+) Unsolved problems of experimental statistics (+) A corner test for association (+) Linearization of solutions in supersonic flow (+) Non- parametric estimation I - II. Statistically equivalent blocks and tolerance regions - the continuous case (+) Some distributions of sample means (+) Low moments for small samples: a comparative study of order statistics (+) An inequality for deviations from medians (+) Approximation of the distribution of the product of beta variables.

[Various places and printer] ,1945 - 1974. Collection of 24 offprint from various academic journals. All with wrappers (or as issued) and in fine condition. Contained in a black kassett.

A large collection of offprint by American physicist John Tukey known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot. Tukey's range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, Tukey's test of additivity and Tukey's lemma all bear his name.

"John Tukey's whole life was one of public service, and as the preceding quotes make clear, he had profound influence. He was a member of the President's Scientific Advisory Committee for each of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. He was special in many ways. He merged the scientific, governmental, technological, and industrial worlds more seamlessly than, perhaps, anyone else in the 1900s. His scientific knowledge, creativity, experience, calculating skills, and energy were prodigious. He was renowned for creating statistical concepts and words. JWT's graduate work was in mathematics, but driven by World War II, he left that field to go on to revolutionize the world of the analysis of data. At the end of the war he began a joint industrial-academic career at Bell Telephone Laboratories and at Princeton University. Science and the analysis of data were ubiquitous. This split career continued until he retired in 1985. Even after retirement his technical and scientific work continued at a very high level.
He is said to have introduced the terms: "bit", "linear programming", "ANOVA", "Colonel Blotto", and was first into print with "software". Of these efforts L. Hogben and M. Cartwright wrote, "The introduction by Tukey of bits for binary digits has nothing but irresponsible vulgarity to commend it." Tukey's word "polykay" was described as "linguistic miscegenation" by Kendall and Stuart because of its combining a Greek prefix with a Latin suffix. JWT did it again later with "polyspectrum". (Brillinger, John Wilder Tukey).

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