This is the third in a series of reprints of classic articles in statistics with original introductions by many leading researchers. These volumes will be an indispensable reference for graduate students and researchers in statistics.

The articles were carefully chosen by many of todays leading statisticians, who have also written an introduction and commentary on its impact - All articles that are included have initiated fundamental changes in statistical methodology - Previous volumes were very well received by the community

Zusammenfassung
Volume III includes more selections of articles that have initiated fundamental changes in statistical methodology. It contains articles published before 1980 that were overlooked in the previous two volumes plus articles from the 1980's - all of them chosen after consulting many of today's leading statisticians.

Inhalt
of Volume III.- • Introduction by R. E. Fancher.- Galton, F.(1889). Co-Relations and Their Measurement, Chiefly from Anthropometric Data.- • Introduction by K. Dietz.- McKendrick, A.G. (1926). Applications of Mathematics to Medical Problems.- • Introduction by D.R. Cox.- Yates, F. and Cochran, W.G. (1938). The Analysis of Groups of Experiments.- • Introduction by P.K. Sen.- Rao, C.R. (1948). Large Sample Tests of Statistical Hypotheses Concerning Several Parameters with Applications to Problems of Estimation.- • Introduction by M. H. Gail.- Cornfield, J. (1951). A Method of Estimating Comparative Rates from Clinical Data. Applications to Cancer of the Lung, Breast, and Cervix.- • Introduction by P.J. Huber.- Metropolis, N., Rosenbluth, A.W., Rosenbiuth, M.N., Teller, A.H., and Teller, E. (1953). Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines and Geman, S. and Geman, D. (1984). Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images.- • Introduction by M. Calder and R. A. Davis.- Whittle, P. (1953). The Analysis of Multiple Stationary Time Series.- • Introduction by E. Ronchetti.- Daniels, H.E. (1954). Saddlepoint Approximations in Statistics.- • Introduction by I.J. Good.- Cooley, J.W. and Tukey, J.W. (1965). An Algorithm for the Machine Calculation of Complex Fourier Series.- • Introduction by R.J. Reran.- Hájek, J. (1970). A Characterization of Limiting Distributions of Regular Estimates.- • Introduction by T.L. Lai.- Hastings, W.K. (1970). Monte Carlo Sampling Methods Using Markov Chains and Their Applications.- • Introduction by J.J. Deely.- Lindley, D.V. and Smith, A.F.M. (1972). Bayes Estimates for the Linear Model.- • Introduction by R.L. Smith.- Besag, J. (1974). Spatial Interaction and theStatistical Analysis of Lattice Systems.- • Introduction by J.F. Pfanzagl.- Levit, B.Ya. (1974). On Optimality of Some Statistical Estimates.- • Introduction by I. W. McKeague.- Aalen, O. (1978). Nonparametric Estimation of Partial Transition Probabilities in Multiple Decrement Models.- • Introduction by G. G. Letac.- Morris, C.N. (1982). Natural Exponential Families with Quadratic Variance Functions.- • Introduction by T. DiCiccio.- Barndorff-Nielsen, O.E. (1983). On a Formula for the Distribution of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator.- • Introduction by D. G. Simpson.- Rousseeuw, P.J. (1984). Least Median of Squares Regression.- • Introduction by P.J. Dig gle.- Liang, K.-Y. and Zeger, S.L. (1986). Longitudinal Data Analysis Using Generalized Linear Models.- • Introduction by E. Mammen.- Hall, P. (1988). Theoretical Comparison of Bootstrap Confidence Intervals.- • Introduction by D. M. Titterington.- Gelfand, A.E. and Smith, A.F.M. (1990). Sampling-Based Approaches to Calculating Marginal Densities.