Selected Papers of Frederick Mosteller

Frederick Mosteller—A Brief Biography.- Unbiased Estimates for Certain Binomial Sampling Problems with Applications.- On Some Useful “Inefficient” Statistics.- A k-Sample Slippage Test for an Extreme Population.- The Uses and Usefulness of Binomial Probability Paper.- The Education of a Scientific Generalist.- Remarks on the Method of Paired Comparisons: I. The Least Squares Solution Assuming Equal Standard Deviations and Equal Correlations.- Remarks on the Method of Paired Comparisons: II. The Effect of an Aberrant Standard Deviation When Equal Standard Deviations and Equal Correlations Are Assumed.- Remarks on the Method of Paired Comparisons: III. A Test of Significance for Paired Comparisons when Equal Standard Deviations and Equal Correlations Are Assumed.- An Experimental Measurement of Utility.- A Mathematical Model for Simple Learning.- A Model for Stimulus Generalization and Discrimination.- The World Series Competition.- Principles of Sampling.- Stochastic Models for the Learning Process.- Factorial 1/2: A Simple Graphical Treatment.- A Comparison of Eight Models.- Optimal Length of Play for a Binomial Game.- Tables of the Freeman-Tukey Transformations for the Binomial and Poisson Distributions.- Understanding the Birthday Problem.- Recognizing the Maximum of a Sequence.- The Distribution of Sums of Rounded Percentages.- The Expected Coverage to the Left of the ith Order Statistic for Arbitrary Distributions.- Bias and Runs in Dice Throwing and Recording: A Few Million Throws.- An Empirical Study of the Distribution of Primes and Litters of Primes.- A Conversation About Collins.- Statistics and Ethics in Surgery and Anesthesia.- Experimentation and Innovations.- New Statistical Methods in Public Policy. Part I: Experimentation.- Classroom and PlatformPerformance.- The Clinician’s Responsibility for Helping to Improve the Treatment of Tomorrow’s Patients.- Innovation and Evaluation.- Combination of Results of Stated Precision: I. The Optimistic Case.- Combination of Results of Stated Precision: II. A More Realistic Case.- Allocating Loss of Precision in the Sample Mean to Wrong Weights and Redundancy in Sampling with Replacement from a Finite Population.- Reporting Clinical Trials in General Surgical Journals.- Compensating for Radiation-Related Cancers by Probability of Causation or Assigned Shares.- Methods for Studying Coincidences.- A Modified Random-Effect Procedure for Combining Risk Difference in Sets of 2 × 2 Tables from Clinical Trials.- The Case for Smaller Classes and for Evaluating What Works in the Schoolroom.- Frederick Mosteller and John W. Tukey: A Conversation.