Event

James Hanley, Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health - McGill University

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 15:30to16:30
Purvis Hall Room 24, 1020 avenue des Pins Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 1A2, CA

LEST WE FORGET: Some History of Statistics and Some Statistics in History

http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/Dr. Hanley will begin with some messages from his recent publications. Then, he will provide some of the history of what is known today as the 'Poisson' distribution. He will end by highlighting some statistical aspects of the 13 U.S. selective service ('draft') lotteries held over the last 100 years, including the embarrassments in 1940 and 1969. The key to the successful ones in 1917 and 1918, to the 'remedies' employed in the 1941 and 1942, and 1970 and 1971 lotteries, and to the contingency plan in place in 2018, is ‘double’ -- and even 'triple' -- robustness.

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