Biometrika Tables for Statisticians
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Biometrika Tables for Statisticians Volumes I and II were written by E.S Pearson and H.O. Hartley, to update and revise Karl Pearson’s previously published tables that had run out of print. Fisher’s review of the Tables said they “[afford] an opportunity of clarifying in concrete terms, ideas which have in the past been disputed in perhaps too abstract an atmosphere”.[1]
Volume I was issued in 1954, containing the “most essential tools of the statistician’s trade” and tables that standardized significant values for statisticians. It begins with a 102-page introduction describing the theory behind the tables and how to use them. The tables make up the bulk of the publication, relating to the normal probability function and the normal function, discrete distributions, and others.
Volume II was issued in 1972, described as “one of the many possible companions to Volume I”[1]. Like Volume I, it starts with a long introduction, 149 pages long, containing in-depth, real data examples requiring the use of the tables. The introduction is followed by tables on the normal probability function, procedures based on the use of order statistics, mean slippage tests based on ranks, noncentral distributions, univariate-frequency distributions, quantal assay, multivariate analysis, the empirical distribution function, and interpolation. In addition, the Appendixes also include recent publications and clarification, and tables published by others beforehand.
The Biometrika Tables for Statisticians were used and referenced widely by statistics students, professionals, and researchers from 1954 to the 1990s. It inspired similar books that standardized the calculations in the tables to be created in other countries such as former USSR. 5 Another useful publication to understanding the Tables and their use is the Guide to Tables in Mathematical Statistics by Greenwood and Hartley.
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