Selected Techniques of Statistical Analysis for Scientific and Industrial Research and Production and Management Engineering

Abstract

IN the United States, as in Great Britain, the value of statistical method and technique became especially recognized during the War. This was an inevitable outcome of need, but is perhaps also some tribute to the contributions of the comparatively few statistical workers. The Statistical Research Group of Columbia University worked for the Applied Mathematics Panel, Office of Scientific Research and Development. One of its major contributions to technique was sequential analysis, the subject of an independent monograph recently prepared by its principal creator, A. Wald. The editors of the volume under review had the rather difficult task of assembling other much more miscellaneous work, which arose as "almost a by-product of the responsible and co-operative handling of practical military, scientific, engineering, and production problems".

Selected Techniques of Statistical Analysis for Scientific and Industrial Research and Production and Management Engineering

By the Statistical Research Group, Columbia University. Edited by Churchill Eisenhart Millard W. Hastay W. Allen Wallis. Pp. xiv + 473. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book. Co., Inc., 1947.) 36s.