Table of Contents

Preface
Part 1- Special EditionD.R.Cox: Biometrika: The first 100 years
A.C.Davison: Biometrika Centenary: Theory and general methodology
A.C.Atkinson & R.A.Bailey: One hundered years of the design of experiments on and off the pages of Biometrika
David Oakes: Biometrika Centenary: Survival analysis
Peter Hall: Biometrika Centenary: Nonparametrics
T.M.F.Smith: Biometrika Centenary: Sample surveys
Howell Tong: A personal journey through time series in Biometrika
Part 2 - selected papersF.Yates (1939): The comparative advantages of systemic and randomized arrangements in the design of agricultural and biological experiments
H.E.Daniels (1944): The relation between measures of correlation in the universe of sample permutations
R.L.Plackett & J.Burman (1946): The design of optimum multifactorial experiments
M.S.Bartlett (1950): Periodogram analysis and continous spectra
P.Whittle (1954): On stationary processes in the plane
M.Quenouille (1956): Notes on bias estimation
E.S.Pearson (1968): Studies in the history of probability and statistics. XX. Some early correspondence between W.S.Gosset, R.A.Fisher and Karl Pearson, with notes and comments
W.K.Hastings (1970): Monte Carlo sampling methods using Markov chains and their applications
K.G.Joreskog (1970): A general method for analysis of covariance structures
I.J.Good & R.A.Gaskin (1971): Nonparametric roughness penalties for probability densities

Reviews

"I found it irresistible"--International Journal of Epidemiology
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