Seminal Ideas and Controversies in Statistics
这本书基于Fisher、Neyman等著名统计学家的开创性论文，讨论相关思想与争议，每章配有实例和思考题，适合统计学者和研究生阅读。
As the name of the book suggests, Seminal Ideas and Controversies in Statistics by Rod Little is a fascinating and novel kind of book published by Chapman & Hall under its Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability series. Each chapter of the book is based on some seminal ideas and the corresponding papers by eminent statisticians, and other relevant readings are given. The controversies regarding these seminal ideas are also discussed in that chapter. Some of the top celebrated statisticians whose ideas and papers are discussed in the book include Fisher, Neyman, Box, Rubin, Efron, Cox, Tukey, Breiman, etc. Plenty of examples are given in each chapter regarding these seminal ideas and controversies. Each chapter concludes with some thoughtful questions about that seminal idea.