Salsburg, D. 2001.
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The Lady Tasting Tea
-- How statistics revolutionized science
in the twentieth century''.
Owl Book.
Chapter 21. A Genius In The Family
I.J. Good
One of I.J. Good's major achievements was the contribution
he made to the development of empirical Bayes and
hierrachal Bayes methods which he derived from the work
he did at Bletchley. He emerged from his wartime
experiences with a deep iterest in the underlying theories
of mathematical statistics. He taught breifly at the
Unieversity of Manchester, but the British government
lured him back into intelligence, where he became an
important figure in the adoption of computers to deal with
problems of cryptanalysis. The power of the computer to
examine vast numbers of possible combinations led him into
investigations of classification theory, where observed
units are organized in terms of different definitions of
``closeness.''
