A Generation of Statistics Education: An Interview with Frederick Mosteller

Books Mentioned In The Interview

• S. S. Wilks, Elementary Statistical Analysis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1948.
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• Frederick Mosteller with a group of the Commission on Mathematics of the College Entrance Examination Board, Introductory Probability and Statistical Inference for Secondary Schools: An Experimental Course, preliminary edition. New York: College Entrance Examination Board, 1957.
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• Mosteller, R. Frederick E. K. Rourke, and G. B. ThomasJr., three books; the first is the basic reference, the other two are derived from it by abridgements and slight rewriting: Probability with Statistical Applications. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1961. 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 1970. Probability and Statistics, official textbook for Continental Classroom. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1961. Probability: A First Course. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1961.
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• Frederick Mosteller and David L. Wallace, Inference and Disputed Authorship: The Federalist. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1964. Now reissued with an additional chapter as: Applied Bayesian and Classical Inference: The Case of the Federalist Papers. New York: Springer Verlag, 1984.
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• Edited by Judith M. Tanur; and by Frederick MostellerChairman, William H. Kruskal, Richard F. Link, Richard S. Pieters, and Gerald R. Rising, The Joint Committee on the Curriculum in Statistics and Probability of the American Statistical Association and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown. San Francisco: Holden-Day, 1972. 2nd edition, San Francisco: Holden-Day, 1978. 3rd edition, Pacific Grove, CA: Wadsworth & Brooke/Cole, 1989.
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• Frederick MostellerChairman, William H. Kruskal, Richard S. Pieters, and Gerald R. Rising, The Joint Committee on the Curriculum in Statistics and Probability of the American Statistical Association and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Statistics by Example: Exploring Data, Statistics by Example: Weighing Chances, Statistics by Example: Detecting Patterns, and Statistics by Example: Finding Models. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1973.
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• Yvonne M.M. Bishop, Stephen E. Fienberg, and Paul W. Holland, with the collaboration of Richard J. Light and Frederick Mosteller, Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1975. First paper edition, MIT Press, 1977.
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• J.P. Bunker, B.A. Barnes, F. Mosteller, eds., Costs, Risks, and Benefits of Surgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
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• Frederick Mosteller and John W. Tukey, Data Analysis and Regression: A Second Course in Statistics. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1977.
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• Sharon Anderson, Ariane Auquier, Walter W. Hauck, David Oakes, Walter Vandaele, and Herbert I. Weisberg, Statistical Methods for Comparative Studies. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1980.
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• David C. Hoaglin, Frederick Mosteller, and John W. Tukey, eds., Understanding Robust and Exploratory Data Analysis. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1983.
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• David C. Hoaglin, Frederick Mosteller, and John W. Tukey, eds., Exploring Data: Tables, Trends, and Shapes. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1985.
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• David C. Hoaglin, Frederick Mosteller, and John W. Tukey, eds., Exploring Data: Tables, Trends, and Shapes. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1985.
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• Frederick Mosteller, Stephen E. Fienberg, and Robert E.K. Rourke, Beginning Statistics with Data Analysis. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1983.
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• John C. BailarIII and Frederick Mosteller, eds., Medical Uses of Statistics. Waltham, MA: New England Journal of Medicine Books, 1986. 2nd edition, 1992.
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• Joseph A. Ingelfinger, Frederick Mosteller, Laurence A. Thibodeau, and James H. Ware, Biostatistics in Clinical Medicine, 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan, 1987.
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• David C. Hoaglin, Frederick Mosteller, and John W. Tukey, eds., Fundamentals of Exploratory Analysis of Variance. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1991.
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