1905 – Einstein photoelectric effect paper; special relativity
developed
1906 – Wasserman test for syphilis
1908 – Ford Model T
1914–1918 – WW I
1921 – Fisher’s “On the Mathematical Foundations of
Theoretical Statistics” is published; Banting and Best
extract insulin from pancreas
1925 – Statistical Methods for Research Workers published
1928 – Fleming discovers penicillin
1937 – Friedman works on ranks
We have seen major changes in
1939 – WWII begins in Europe
our lives throughout the past 100
years. Statistics and statisticians
1941 – United States enters WWII
have helped measure these
changes. We have helped
1945 – WWII ends; Wilcoxon rank statistics paper
ensure good data collection,
analysis, and reporting meth-
1947 – Wald book on sequential analysis appears; Mann-
Whitney paper
ods. As we enter the second
hundred years PS (post-
1952 – Salk vaccine developed
Student), we see there are
many areas to which we
1953 – Watson-Crick paper on structure of double helix
contribute. Statistical
methods will continue
1955 – Publication of results of clinical trial of polio vaccine,
to be developed and
Brownlee (JASA) and Meier (AJPH and Science)
will require substantial
involved
computing power. The brief chro-
1962 – BMD begins distributing statistical package programs
nology above did not discuss the
computing intensive methods now
1968 – SPSS founded being used.
The ASA has kept pace with the
1972 – Proportional Hazards Model (Cox); logrank statistic
need for journals relevant to these
proposed (Peto and Peto); Generalized Linear Models
developments. In addition to JASA
(Nelder and Wedderburn); CAT (computerized axial
(founded in 1888), there are The
tomography) developed; first SAS manual published;
American Statistician (founded in
Minitab founded; Savage’s The Foundations of Statistics
1947); Journal of Agricultural, Biological,logical,
published (also earlier book with same title from 1962)
and Environmental Statistics
1975 – Group Sequential Analysis – Armitage book
(founded in 1996);
Journal of Computational
1979 – Bootstrap introduced by Efron and Graphical Statistics
(founded in 1992);
1981 – IBM introduces their PC; AIDS epidemic begins
Technometrics (founded in
1982 – Laird and Ware on random effects models
1959); Journal of Business &
Economic Statistics (found-
1983 – Kary Mullis develops polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
ed in 1982); and Statistics
in Biopharmaceutical Researchh
1985 – Stata founded
(founded in 2008). The enterprisese
1989 – BUGS (Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling) proj-
of journal publishing is undergoinging
ect founded; led to WinBUGS and easier implementa-
considerable rethinking. The ASAASA
tion of Bayesian models
Board of Directors will monitor thesethese
issues over the coming years.
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee develops program enabling the World
Wide Web for the internet
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