Quiet Contributor: The Civic Career and Times of John W. Tukey

Statistical Science

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 287-310

  Anscombe, F R ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Bit; Boxplot; Exploratory data analysis; Fast Fourier transform; Multiple comparisons; One degree of freedom for nonadditivity; Robust estimates; Software; Stem and leaf display; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842554213     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ss/1076102417     Document Type: Article

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