Miscellaneous Correspondence and Commentary

Expository

C. Tong, 2021: The statistical endeavors of Andrew Carnegie. Chance, 34 (4), 12-17. 🔒
- Erratum: The beginning of the third to last paragraph on the last page should read: "By contemporary standards, Andrew Carnegie is not a statistician, nor would his modern counterparts--CEOs of modern companies--be considered statisticians..."
- This article is discussed in Episode 216 of the Stats+Stories podcast, Carnegie the Statistician (Jan. 27, 2022).
- Presented (virtually) at the Nevada Statistics Symposium, 25 March 2022. Notes from that presentation may be found here.

Book Review

C. Tong, 2005: Book review of Methods of Multivariate Analysis, second edition, by Alvin C. Rencher. IIE Transactions, 37, 1083-1085. 🔒
- IIE = Institute of Industrial Engineers.

Letters to the Editor

C. Tong, 2015: Response to Mark van der Laan, "Statistics as a science, not an art: the way to survive in data science". Amstat News, issue 455 (May 2015), 34-35.
C. Tong, 2012: Response to H. A. David, "Euler's contributions to mathematics useful in statistics". The American Statistician, 66: 75.
C. Tong, 2004: Parallel universes in the statistics literature. [Response to Derek York, Norman M. Evensen, Margarita Lopez Martinez, and Jonas de Basabe Delgado.] American Journal of Physics, 72: 1367.
C. Tong, 2003: Further comments on the review times for statistics and physics journals. [Response to Larry Wasserman.] IMS Bulletin, 32 (4): 10.
- IMS = Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
C. Tong, 2002: Various formulations of classical mechanics. [Response to Daniel F. Styer et al.] American Journal of Physics, 70: 664. 🔒
C. Tong, 2001: Physics and quality. [Repsonse to Mark Annett.] The Industrial Physicist, 7 (3), 4.
C. Tong, 1996: Torsional pendulums and SQUIDs. [Response to Randall D. Peters.] American Journal of Physics, 64: 1227-1228. 🔒
C. Tong, 1995: Answer to Question #4, "Is there a physics application that is best analyzed in terms of continued fractions?". [Repsonse to Dwight E. Neuenschwander.] American Journal of Physics, 63: 109.

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