History

	1930 Wiener about generalized harmonic analysis	1940 Cramer about corr function of stoch processes, Levy about Brownian motion, Hotelling about prediction, Wald about fitting a straight line, Wald-Wolfowitz test, Kendall about testing inconsistent pr	1950 Nash's first paper on bargaining, Bartlett on periodograms, Durbin and Watson about their test of autocorrelation.
	1931 kolmogoroff invents continuous time stochastic processes	1941 Berry about convergence in CLT	1951 Durbin and Kendal about geometry of estimation, Kullback-Leibler about their distance, Robbins and Monro invent stochastic approximation method, Nash invents equilibrium of non-coop. games, julia r
	1932 Pearson about testing whether samples are from one distribution	1942 Doob about OU process, introduces stochastic diff equations, Mann-Wald about non-parametric testing probability distributions	1952 Chernoff proves his bounds for large deviations, Kiefer and Wolfowitz apply stochastic approximation to finding the maximum of a regression function.
	1933 Neyman and Pearson about efficient tests, Kolmogoroff about continuous random processes	1943 Gnedenko about maxima of i.i.d sequences, Haavelmo about statistics of simultaneous equations.	1953 Chernoff about locally optimal designs, Darling and Siegert show how to calculate the first passage time.
	1934 Khintchine about correlation functions of stationary processes	1944 Cameron and Martin about a change of the Wiener measure, Wald and Wolfowitz about a linear function of a random permutation	1954 Whittle about stationary processes in the plane, Feller about diffusion, Daniels about inversion of characteristic functions
	1935 Jessen and Wintner about distributions of Riemann's zeta function	1945 Wald on sequential tests and Kac on random walk and eigenvalues	1955 Wigner on random matrices, Noether defines asymptotic relative efficiency of two tests, Pillai introduces new tests for comparison covariance matrices, and Simon introduces a new class of distribut
1926 Khintchine about the law of iterated logarithm	1936 Koopmans about sufficient statistics	1946 Wilks about tests for normal multivariate distribution and Bartlett about autocorrelated processes.	1956 Rosenblatt on estimation of density function, Lindley on information theory and statistic, Kiefer_Wolfowitz on maximum likelihood, Spitzer on maximum of random walk and combinatorics
1927 Dirac about second quantization	1937 Pitman invents non-parametric statistics	1947 Mann-Whitney about asymptotics of Wilcoxon test, Kac-Siegert represent a contiuous Gaussian process, Cameron-Martin introduce Fourier-Hermite expansion for functionals.	1957 Kac-Darling about occupation times of Markoff processes, Lindley about a statistical paradox, Anderson-Goodman about estimation of Markov chains, Nehari about bounds of linear forms, and Suits desc
1928 Fisher about multiple correlation, Fisher and Tippett about extreme value distributions	1938 Wilks about the asymptotic distribution of the likelihood ratio statistics	1948 Hoeffding on conditions for validity of asymptotic normality, Kac-Salem-Zygmund on quasi-orthogonal functions.	1958 Kaplan and Meyer on survival probabilities, Tobin on tobit, Spitzer on 2-dimensional Brownian motion
1929 Kolmogoroff about the law of iterated logarithm	1939 Neyman about contagious distributions, Wald about fundamentals of statistics	1949 Kac on Wiener functionals, Cameron-Martin on change of variable in Wiener integrals, Halmos and Savage delineate sufficiency as a property of Radon-Nicodym derivative, Wald proves consistency of ma	1959 Kesten on random walks on groups, Kiefer and Wolfowitz on optimal design, and Kraft-Pratt-Seidenberg give a counterexample to a deFinetti conjecture

1960 Furstenberg and Kesten on product of random matrices, Mehta and Gaudin on random matrices and orthogonal polynomials	1970 Kimeldorf and Wahba about splines and filtering and Malinvaud about consistency of NLS.	1980 White's heteroskedasticity consistent covariance estimate	1990 Lyons about random walks on trees, Gelfand and Smith about Monte Carlo algorithms, Speicher about free probability
1961 Parzen about reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, Pyke about markov renewal processes, Slepian about first passage time of a Gaussian process	1971 Savage about elicitation of probabilities and Hampel about robustness and Prohorov distance	1981 chien-fu wu about consistency of NLS and friedman-stuetzle about projection pursuit regression	1991 Voiculescu about free probability and large random matrices, Friedman about MARS
1962 Parzen about estimation of density function and its mode.	1972 Cox on life tables, Lindley on hyper-parameters and Bayesian regression, Prescott on control with an uncertain system	1982 Silverman about density estimation with penalized likelihood, Engle about ARCH	1992 Jones about speed of projection pursuit, pemantle about contact processes on trees, maassen about free additive convolutions
1963 Anderson about distribution of principal components, Hoeffding about his large deviation inequality	1973 Merton on intertemporal investing, Kingman on subadditive processes, Lasota and Yorke on existence of invariant measure	1983 Vershik and Kaimanovich about random walks on groups and entropy	1993 voiculescu about free entropy, bai about eigenvalues of random matrices
1964 Huber about robust estimation, James about multivariate hypergeometric functions and statistical distributions, Robbins about empirical Bayes method	1974 Ferguson introduces Dirichlet priors	1984 Ellis about large deviations	1994 voiculescu about free entropy II, tracy-widom about fredholm determinants, and tierney about markov chain simulations
1965 Hoeffding about testing multinomial distributions, Loftsgaarden and Quesenberry estimates of density function, Ginibre about random matrices	1975 Solomon about random walks in random environment, Csiszar about I-divergence, Hill about inference on tails, and Yuen-Kennedy-Lax about testing quantum hypothesis	1985 Huber about projection pursuit and Vardi-Schepp-Kaufmann about positron emission tomography	1995 aldous and diaconis about longest increasing subsequence, and schumacher about quantum noiseless coding
1966 Burkholder about martingale transforms, Shepp about Radon-Nikodym derivatives of Gaussian measures, Balestra-Nerlove about panel data with dynamic structure	1976 Aumann about agreeing to disagree, Hoffmann-Jorgensen and Pisier about law of large numbers in Banach spaces, and McCallum about estimation of rational expectation models	1986 barron about convergence of entropy of sums, besag on images, mauldin and williams about the Hausdorff dimension of fractals	1996 peres on non-separable states, khorunzhy-khoruzhenko-pastur about random matrices, connes about non-commutative geometry
1967 Schwartz about density estimation by Hermite functions, Esary et al. about associated variables, Griffiths’ inequalities for ferromagnets, Marchenko-Pastur distribution	1977 Dempster-Laird-Rubin about EM algorithm	1987 engle and granger on cointegration, stock on estimation of cointegrating vectors	1997 Shor about polynomial time factorization of integer using quantum computation
1968 Dudley about probability distances, Miller about jackknife, Radner about markets with uncertainty, Helstrom about quantum Cramer-Rao inequality, Kingman about subadditive egodic theory	1978 Schwartz about estimating model dimension, Hausman about specification test	1988 Lawler and Sokal on the Cheeger inequality for Markov chains
1969 Jennrich about consistency of non-linear least squares, Granger about causality, Calogero about the quantum problem of 3 bodies	1979 Efron about bootstrap	1989 Talagrand about isoperimetry and Mallat about multiresolution approximations