Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics: W. Edwards Deming, Persi Diaconis, Harold Hotelling, John Tukey, Walter A. Shewhart

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: W. Edwards Deming, Persi Diaconis, Harold Hotelling, John Tukey, Walter A. Shewhart, Oscar Kempthorne, Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, Abraham Wald, Joseph Leo Doob, William Feller, R. C. Bose, George E. P. Box, Frederick Mosteller, Donald Burkholder, Bernard Silverman, Bradley Efron, Jerzy Neyman, Peter Gavin Hall, Herbert Robbins, Stephen Stigler, William Kruskal, Jack Kiefer, Leonard Jimmie Savage, Jacob Wolfowitz, Lucien Le Cam, Ingram Olkin, Mark Kac, Samuel S. Wilks, Wassily Hoeffding, List of presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Stephen Fienberg, Theodore Wilbur Anderson, Morris H. Hansen, William Gemmell Cochran, Louis Chen Hsiao Yun, Terry Speed, Herman Chernoff, Elizabeth Scott, Ted Harris, J. Michael Steele. Excerpt: William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 - December 20, 1993) was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. He is perhaps best known for his work in Japan. There, from 1950 onward, he taught top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing and sales (the last through global markets) through various methods, including the application of statistical methods. Deming made a significant contribution to Japan's later reputation for innovative high-quality products and its economic power. He is regarded as having had more impact upon Japanese manufacturing and business than any other individual not of Japanese heritage. Despite being considered something of a hero in Japan, he was only just beginning to win widespread recognition in the U.S. at the time of his death. Dr. Deming's teachings and philosophy are best illustrated by examining the results they produced when they were adopted by Japanese industry, as the following example shows: Ford Motor Company was simultaneously manufacturing a car model with transmissions ma...