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He was the son of Fritz Noether, the nephew of Emmy Noether, and the grandson of Max Noether.
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The introductory statistics course presents serious pedagogical problems to the instructor. For the great majority of students, the course represents the only formal contact with statistical thinking that he or she will have in college. Students come from many different fields of study, and a large number suffer from math anxiety. Thus, an instructor who is willing to settle for some limited objectives will have a much better chance of success than an instructor who aims for a broad exposure to statistics. Many statisticians agree that the primary objective of the introductory statistics course is to introduce students to variability and uncertainty and how to cope with them when drawing inferences from observed data. Addi tionally, the introductory COurse should enable students to handle a limited number of useful statistical techniques. The present text, which is the successor to the author's Introduction to Statistics: A Nonparametric Approach (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1976), tries to meet these objectives by introducing the student to the ba sic ideas of estimation and hypothesis testing early in the course after a rather brief introduction to data organization and some simple ideas about probability. Estimation and hypothesis testing are discussed in terms of the two-sample problem, which is both conceptually simpler and more realistic than the one-sample problem that customarily serves as the basis for the discussion of statistical inference.
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(The introductory statistics course presents serious pedag...)
The introductory statistics course presents serious pedagogical problems to the instructor. For the great majority of students, the course represents the only formal contact with statistical thinking that he or she will have in college. Students come from many different fields of study, and a large number suffer from math anxiety. Thus, an instructor who is willing to settle for some limited objectives will have a much better chance of success than an instructor who aims for a broad exposure to statistics. Many statisticians agree that the primary objective of the introductory statistics course is to introduce students to variability and uncertainty and how to cope with them when drawing inferences from observed data. Addi tionally, the introductory COurse should enable students to handle a limited number of useful statistical techniques. The present text, which is the successor to the author's Introduction to Statistics: A Nonparametric Approach (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1976), tries to meet these objectives by introducing the student to the ba sic ideas of estimation and hypothesis testing early in the course after a rather brief introduction to data organization and some simple ideas about probability. Estimation and hypothesis testing are discussed in terms of the two-sample problem, which is both conceptually simpler and more realistic than the one-sample problem that customarily serves as the basis for the discussion of statistical inference.
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He was the son of Fritz Noether, the nephew of Emmy Noether, and the grandson of Max Noether.
Columbia University.
Noether emigrated to the United States in 1939, where he earned a bachelor"s degree (1940) and a master"s degree (1941). The following four years, during World World War II, he served with United States Army intelligence in England, France, and Germany. After the war, he earned a doctorate from Columbia University (1949).
He worked in academia for the rest of his career, beginning at New York University.
He moved to Boston University in 1952 where he worked until he joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut in 1968. There, he eventually became chairman of the department of statistics.
He retired in 1985. Noether served on a statistical advisory committee for the United States Office of Management and Budget and as an associate editor of The American He was a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
As an expert on non-parametric statistics, he wrote over 50 articles and six books He also wrote a brief biography of his father Fritz, who was executed in the Soviet Union in 1941.
In 1999 the Gottfried E. Noether Awards were established to "recognize distinguished researchers and teachers and to support research in the field of nonparametric statistics." The initial recipients of the Gottfried E. Noether Senior Scholar Awards were Erich Leo Lehmann (2000) and Robert V. Hogg (2001), and Pranab K. Senator (2002).
(The introductory statistics course presents serious pedag...)
(The introductory statistics course presents serious pedag...)