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Classics of statistics
- hugh3 16y agoIn case you, like I, read through that list and wondered what the hell the Federalist Papers had to do with statistics, I've saved you the trouble of looking it up: Mosteller and David Wallace studied the historical problem of who wrote each of the disputed Federalist papers, Madison or Hamilton. In 1964 this paper appeared on the cover of Time magazine, the first time a paper in the field of statistics received such attention. The Federalist Papers study was conducted in order to demonstrate the power of Bayesian data analysis and required a great deal of computational power for that time.