John W. Tukey: His life and professional contributions

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1535-1575

  Brillinger, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bell Labs; Computational mathematics; Computers; Cryptography; Data analysis; History; Information theory; John W. Tukey; Mathematics; Neologisms; Princeton University; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037001429     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1043351246     Document Type: Article

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