What are the Most Important Statistical Ideas of the Past 50 Years?

DOI10.1080/01621459.2021.1938081zbMath1506.62003arXiv2012.00174OpenAlexW3172185524MaRDI QIDQ5881991

Aki Vehtari, Andrew Gelman

Publication date: 14 March 2023

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00174

zbMATH Keywords

data analysishistory of statisticsstatistical computing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics (62-02) History of statistics (62-03)

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Uses Software

• ggplot2
• BUGS
• darch
• TETRAD
• TensorFlow
• bootstrap

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