"Sequential Tests of Statistical Hypotheses" in The Annals of Mathematical Statistics

Abraham Wald. "Sequential Tests of Statistical Hypotheses" in The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, vol XVI, no. 2, June 1945, pp 117-186 in the issue of pp 117-220. Original wrappers. Owner's name mostly faded away at front right corner wrapper. There are some very faint pressure marks in the text and rear wrapper from where this issue may have been bound in a stack at some point. But for that this is a Fine copy of a significant work. Cited 3200 times. Abraham Wald (1902-1950) was a revolutionary figure in the development of modern statistics, one of the creators of modern decision theory and the creator of the vastly important sequential analysis. "Most statistical work builds on a well-established paradigm. Abraham Wald fully developed and established a new paradigm based on sequential tests of statistical hypotheses. Although formulated in 1943, the new paradigm was first published as “Sequential Tests of Statistical Hypotheses” in The Annals of Mathematical Statistics in 1945 [the paper offered here]. In traditional statistical hypothesis testing, an experiment is performed using a predetermined sample size chosen to ensure sufficient statistical power so the null hypothesis is likely to be rejected when in truth it should be rejected. In sequential hypothesis testing, experiments are designed so that after each observation, a decision could be made to accept or reject the null hypothesis or to gather another observation. Thus, a final decision would be based on a sequence of statistical tests."--in Neil J. Salkind, "Encyclopedia of Research Design".…