Phillip Good
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Phillip I. Good is a Canadian-American
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 mathematical statistician. He was educated at McGill University
McGill University
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 and the University of California at Berkeley.

He was among the first to apply the bootstrap in his 1975 analyses of 2×2 designs with a missing cell . His chief contributions to statistics are in the area of small sample statistics, including a uniformly most powerful unbiased (UMPU) permutation test for Type I censored
Censoring (statistics)
In statistics, engineering, and medical research, censoring occurs when the value of a measurement or observation is only partially known.For example, suppose a study is conducted to measure the impact of a drug on mortality. In such a study, it may be known that an individual's age at death is at...

 data , an exact test for comparing variance
Variance
In probability theory and statistics, the variance is a measure of how far a set of numbers is spread out. It is one of several descriptors of a probability distribution, describing how far the numbers lie from the mean . In particular, the variance is one of the moments of a distribution...

s, and an exact test for cross-over designs .

His published texts in statistics include the following:
  • A Practitioner's Guide to Resampling for Data Analysis, Data Mining, and Modeling,Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2011.
  • Analyzing the Large Number of Variables in Biomedical and Satellite Imagery,Wiley, NY. 2011.
  • Managers' Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials, Wiley, NY, 2002 (2nd edition, 2006).
  • Introduction to Statistics Using Resampling Methods and R/S-Plus. Wiley, 2005.
  • Introduction to Statistics Using Resampling Methods and Excel. Wiley, 2005.
  • Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them)(with J. Hardin), Wiley, 2003 (3rd edition, 2009).
  • Applying Statistics in the Courtroom: A New Approach for Attorneys and Expert Witnesses, Chapman Hall, London, 2001. ISBN 1-58488-271-9
  • Resampling Methods, Birkhauser, Boston, 1999 (3rd edition, 2005).
  • Permutation, Parametric and Bootstrap Tests of Hypotheses, Springer-Verlag, NY, 1994 (3rd edition, 2005).


He has published articles in
  • Biology—Exp Geron 8(73)147; Mech Age Devel 4(75) 339.
  • Biomathematics—J theoret Biol 34(72)99; Bull Math Biol 38(76)295.
  • Biostatistics—Contemporary Clinical Trials 29(08)565.
  • Computer Science—Computer Architecture News 16(88)3:40.
  • Physics—Physics Essays 23(10)368.
  • Probability—J Aust math soc 8(68)716.
  • Statistics—J Nonpar Statist 1(92)253-262; J. Modern Appl. Statist. Meth. 1(02)243.


He has published nine texts on the application of microcomputer
Microcomputer
A microcomputer is a computer with a microprocessor as its central processing unit. They are physically small compared to mainframe and minicomputers...

s in business as well as several hundred articles on microcomputers in over a dozen different computer magazines. He is the author of some 21 novels and two collections of short stories published by zanybooks.com.

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