Publications

Books

1. Bellhouse, D.R. (2011). Abraham De Moivre: Setting the Stage for Classical Probability and its Applications. CRC Press: Boca Raton, London, New York. ISBN: 978-1-56881-349-3

CRC Press website

http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781568813493

Amazon.com website

http://www.amazon.com/Abraham-Moivre-Classical-Probability-Applications/dp/156881349X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334264044&sr=8-1

Errata

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Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

1. Bellhouse, D.R. (2011). A new look at Halley’s life table. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (A) 174: 823 – 832.

2. Woolford, D.G., Bellhouse, D.R., Braun, W.J., Dean, C.B., Martell, D.L. and Sun, J. (2011). A spatio-temporal model for people-caused for fire occurrence in the Romeo Malette Forest. Journal of Environmental Statistics 2(1): 1 – 26. [http://www.jenvstat.org/v02/i01/paper]

3. Bellhouse, D.R. and Davison, M. (2009). De Moivre’s Poisson approximation to the binomial. International Statistical Review 77: 451 – 449.

4. Bellhouse, D.R. (2009). Karl Pearson’s influence in the United States. International Statistical Review 77: 51 – 63.

5. Wang, Z. and D.R. Bellhouse (2009). Semiparametric regression model for complex survey data. Survey Methodology 35: 247 – 260.

6. Bellhouse, D.R., E.M. Renouf, R. Raut and M.A. Bauer (2009). De Moivre’s knowledge community: an analysis of the subscription list to the Miscellanea Analytica. Notes and Records of the Royal Society 63: 137 – 162.

7. Bellhouse, D.R. and L. Wang (2008). On the linearly truncated bivariate normal distribution. Journal of Statistical Research 42(2): 21 – 39.

8. Bellhouse, D.R. (2008). Banishing Fortuna: Montmort and De Moivre. Journal of the History of Ideas 69: 559 – 581.

9. Bellhouse, D.R. (2007). The Problem of Waldegrave. Journal Electronique d’Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (2) [http://www.jehps.net/decembre2007.html].

10. Bellhouse, D.R. and Genest, C. (2007). Maty’s life of Abraham De Moivre, translated, annotated and augmented. Statistical Science 22: 109 – 136.

11. Bellhouse, D.R. (2007). Lord Stanhope’s papers on the doctrine of chances. Historia Mathematica 34: 173 – 186.

12. Bellhouse, D.R. and C. Genest (2005). A statistical controversy in nineteenth century Montreal. Statistical Science 20: 178 – 192.

13. Bellhouse, D.R. (2005). Decoding Cardano’s Liber de Ludo Aleae. Historia Mathematica 32: 180 – 202.

14. Bellhouse, D.R and Liu, W. (2004). Double sampling for stratification with application to fisheries surveys. International Journal of Statistical Sciences 3: 259 – 268.

15. Bellhouse, D.R. (2004). The Reverend Thomas Bayes, FRS: a biography to celebrate the tercentenary of his birth (with discussion). Statistical Science 19: 3 – 43.

16. Bellhouse, D.R. (2002). On some recently discovered manuscripts of Thomas Bayes. Historia Mathematica 29: 383 – 394.

17. Bellhouse, D.R. and J.N.K. Rao (2002). Analysis of domain means in complex surveys, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 102: 47 – 58.

18. Bellhouse, D.R. and J.E. Stafford (2001). Local polynomial regression for complex surveys. Survey Methodology 27: 197 – 203.

19. Bellhouse, D.R. (2001). The central limit theorem for finite population sampling. American Statistician 55: 352 – 357.

20. Bellhouse, D.R. (2000). Survey sampling theory over the Twentieth Century and its relation to computing technology. Survey Methodology 26: 11 – 20.

21. Bellhouse, D.R. (2000). De Vetula: a medieval manuscript containing probability calculations, International Statistical Review 68: 123 – 136.

22. Wiebe, S., D.R. Bellhouse, C. Fallahay and M. Eliasziw (1999). Burden of epilepsy: the Ontario Health Survey. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences 26: 263 – 270.

23. Bellhouse, D.R. and C. Genest (1999). A history of the Statistical Society of Canada: the formative years. Statistical Science 14: 80 – 125.

24. Bellhouse, D.R. and J.E. Stafford (1999). Density estimation from complex surveys. Statistica Sinica 9: 407 – 424.

25. Bellhouse, D.R. (1998). London plague statistics in 1665. Journal of Official Statistics 14: 207 – 234.

26. Stafford, J.E. and D.R. Bellhouse (1997). A computer algebra for sample survey theory. Survey Methodology 23: 3 – 10.

27. Bellhouse, D.R., J.E. Stafford and R. Philips (1997). Symbolic operators for multiple sums. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 24: 443 – 454.

28. Bellhouse, D.R. and J. Franklin (1997). The language of chance. International Statistical Review 65: 73 – 85.

29. Bellhouse, D.R., R.J. Pearce, J.H. Peters and L.W. Stitt (1996). The modeling of Iroquoian archaeological site patterns: distance to the nearest source of water and size site. Ontario Archaeology, Number 61, pp. 82 – 99.

30. Bellhouse, D.R. (1995). Estimation of correlation in randomized response. Survey Methodology 21: 13 – 19.

31. Mangat, N.S., R. Singh, S. Singh, D.R. Bellhouse and H.B. Kashani (1995). On efficiency of using distinct respondents in a randomized response survey. Survey Methodology 21: 21 – 23.

32. Bellhouse, D.R. (1993). The role of roguery in the history of probability. Statistical Science 8: 410 – 420.

33. Lawry, K.A. and D.R. Bellhouse (1992). Relative efficiency of certain randomization procedures in an n × n array when spatial correlation is present. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 32: 385 – 399.

34. Bellhouse, D.R. (1991). Marginal and approximate conditional likelihoods for sampling on successive occasions. Survey Methodology 17: 69 – 78.

35. Bellhouse, D.R. (1991). The Genoese lottery. Statistical Science 6: 141 – 148.

36. Bellhouse, D.R. and R.J. Kulperger (1991). Computer generated simple random samples. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation 20: 539 – 550.

37. Bellhouse, D.R. (1990). On the equivalence of marginal and approximate conditional likelihoods for correlation parameters under a normal model. Biometrika 77: 743 – 746.

38. Rao, J.N.K. and D.R. Bellhouse (1990). The history and development of the theoretical foundations of survey based estimation and analysis (with discussion). Survey Methodology 16: 3 – 29.

39. Bellhouse, D.R. and B.C. Sutradhar (1989). End corrections in systematic sampling when a polynomial trend is present. Revista Brasileira de Probabilidade e Estatistica 3: 67 – 75.

40. Bellhouse, D.R. (1989). A manuscript on chance written by John Arbuthnot. International Statistical Review 57: 249 – 259.

41. Bellhouse, D.R. (1989). Optimal estimation of linear functions of finite population means in rotation sampling. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 21: 69 – 74.

42. Bellhouse, D.R. and B.C. Sutradhar (1988). Variance estimation for systematic sampling when autocorrelation is present. The Statistician 37: 327 – 332.

43. Bellhouse, D.R. (1988). Probability in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: an analysis of Puritan casuistry. International Statistical Review 56: 63 – 74.

44. Bellhouse, D.R. (1987). Model-based estimation in finite population sampling. American Statistician 41: 260 – 262.

45. Bellhouse, D.R. and J.N.K. Rao (1986). On the efficiency of prediction estimators in two-stage sampling. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 13: 269 – 281.

46. Bellhouse, D.R. (1986). Randomization in the analysis of covariance. Biometrika 73: 207 –211.

47. Bellhouse, D.R. (1985). Computing methods for variance estimation in complex surveys. Journal of Official Statistics 1: 323 – 329.

48. Bellhouse, D.R. (1985). Sampling microfilmed manuscript census returns. Survey Methodology 11: 111 – 118.

49. Bellhouse, D.R. (1984). A review of optimal designs in survey sampling. Canadian Journal of Statistics 12: 53 – 65.

50. Bellhouse, D.R. (1984). Equally spaced design points in polynomial regression: a comparison of systematic sampling methods with the optimal design of experiments. Canadian Journal of Statistics 12: 77 – 90.

51. Bellhouse, D.R. and V.M. Joshi (1984). On the admissibility of the regression estimator. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (B) 46: 268 – 269.

52. Bellhouse, D.R. (1984). On the choice of sampling interval in circular systematic sampling. Sankhya (B) 46: 247 – 248.

53. Bellhouse, D.R. (1984). Optimal randomization for experiments in which autocorrelation is present. Biometrika 71: 155 – 160.

54. Bellhouse, D.R. (1984). Systematic sampling of periodic functions. Canadian Journal of Statistics 13: 17 – 28.

55. McLeod, A.I. and D.R. Bellhouse (1983). A convenient algorithm for drawing a simple random sample. Applied Statistics 32: 182 – 184.

56. Bellhouse, D.R. (1982). Fair is fair: new rules for Canadian lotteries. Canadian Public Policy - Analyse de Politiques 8: 311 – 320.

57. Bellhouse, D.R. and H.H. Panjer (1982). Stochastic modelling of interest rates with application to life contingencies - Part II. Journal of Risk and Insurance 49: 628 – 637.

58. Bellhouse, D.R. (1982). The need for a federal lotteries review board. Canadian Journal of Statistics 10: 213 – 217.

59. Bellhouse, D.R. (1981). Area estimation by point counting techniques. Biometrics 37: 303 – 312.

60. Bellhouse, D.R. (1981). Spatial sampling in the presence of a trend. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 5: 365 – 375.

61. Bellhouse, D.R. (1980). Linear models for randomized response designs. Journal of the American Statistical Association 75: 1001 – 1004.

62. Bellhouse, D.R. (1980). Sampling studies in archaeology. Archaeometry 22: 123 – 132.

63. Panjer, H.H. and D.R. Bellhouse (1980). Stochastic modelling of interest rates with application to life contingencies. Journal of Risk and Insurance 47: 91 – 100.

64. Bellhouse, D.R. (1980). Toward a legal definition of "distributed at random". The University of Western Ontario Law Review 18: 361 – 368.

65. Bellhouse, D.R. and W.D. Finlayson (1979). An empirical study of probability sampling designs: preliminary results from the Draper Site. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 3: 105 – 125.

66. Bellhouse, D.R. (1978). Marginal likelihood methods for distributed lag models. Statistische Hefte 19: 2 – 14.

67. Rao, J.N.K. and D.R. Bellhouse (1978). Optimal estimation of a finite population mean under generalized random permutation models. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 2: 125 – 141.

68. Bellhouse, D.R. (1977). On the application of fiducial probability to two-stage sampling. Utilitas Mathematica 11: 33 – 42.

69. Bellhouse, D.R. (1977). Some optimal designs for sampling in two dimensions. Biometrika 64: 605 – 611, correction in Biometrika 66 (1979), 402.

70. Bellhouse, D.R., M.E. Thompson and V.P. Godambe (1977). Two-stage with exchangeable prior distributions. Biometrika 64: 97 – 103.

71. Bellhouse, D.R. and J.N.K. Rao (1975). Systematic sampling in the presence of a trend. Biometrika 62: 694 – 697.

72. Bellhouse, D.R. and M.S. Wolynetz (1974). On the regression curve E(y) = α + δx + βρ^x. Communications in Statistics 3: 525 – 534.

Chapters in Books

1. Bellhouse, D.R. (2011). The pure mathematics curriculum in the Dissenting Academies. In A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660 – 1860. I. River, D. Wykes, K. Haakonssen and R. Whatmore (eds.), submitted, to be published by Cambridge University Press.

2. Bellhouse, D.R. (2007). Euler and lotteries. In Leonhard Euler: Life, Work and Legacy. R.E. Bradley and C.E. Sandifer (eds.). Studies in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Volume 5. Elsevier: Amsterdam.

3. Bellhouse, D.R., C.M. Goia and J.E. Stafford (2003). Graphical displays of complex survey data through kernel smoothing. Analysis of Survey Data, R.L. Chambers and C.J. Skinner (eds.), Wiley: Chichester, pp. 133 – 150.

4. Bellhouse, D.R. (2001). Probability prior to Pascal. Statisticians of the Centuries, C.C. Heyde and E. Seneta (eds.), Springer: New York, pp. 3 – 7.

5. Bellhouse, D.R. (2001). John Arbuthnot (1667 – 1735). Statisticians of the Centuries, C.C. Heyde and E. Seneta (eds.), Springer-Verlag: New York, pp. 39 – 42.

6. Bellhouse, D.R. (1988). A brief history of random sampling. Handbook of Statistics, Volume 6, pp. 1 – 14, ed. C.R. Rao and K.R. Krishnaiah. North-Holland: Amsterdam.

7. Bellhouse, D.R. (1988). Systematic sampling. Handbook of Statistics, Volume 6, pp. 125 – 145, ed. C.R. Rao and K.R. Krishnaiah. North-Holland: Amsterdam.

Shorter Articles in Books

1. Bellhouse, D.R. (1997). Systematic sampling methods. Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, Volume 2, pp. 4478 – 4482, ed. P. Armitage and T. Colton. Wiley: Chichester.

2. Bellhouse, D.R. (1997). Cyril Harold Goulden. Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences, pp. 330 – 333, ed. N.L. Johnson and S. Kotz: Wiley: New York.

3. Bellhouse, D.R. (1988). Spatial sampling. Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Volume 8, pp. 581 – 584, ed. N.L. Johnson and S. Kotz. Wiley: New York.

Published Papers in Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

1. Bellhouse, D.R. (1980). Computation of variance-covariance estimates for general multi-stage designs. In COMPSTAT 1980: Proceedings in Computational Statistics, pp. 57 – 63, ed. M.M. Barfitt and D. Wishart. Physica-Verlag: Vienna.

Articles in non-Peer-Reviewed Journals and Conference Proceedings

1. Bellhouse, D.R. (2010). The mathematics curriculum at the British Dissenting Academies in the 18^th century. Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics 23: 47 – 56.

2. Bellhouse, D.R. (2006). Probability and statistics ideas in the classroom - lessons from history. Proceedings of the 55th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Sydney 2005. CD-ROM. International Statistical Institute.

3. Bellhouse, D.R. (2004). A conversation with Ivan Fellegi. Liaison 18 (2): 20 – 29.

4. Bellhouse, D.R. (2002). Banquet keynote address. Liaison 16(3): 27 – 31.

5. Bellhouse, D.R. (2002). Isobel Loutit: a statistician of quality. Liaison 16(2): 14 – 19.

6. Bellhouse, D.R. (2001). J.N.K. Rao: an appreciation of his work. 2001 Proceedings of the Survey Methods Section, Statistical Society of Canada, pp. 3 – 8.

7. Bellhouse, D.R., H. Chipman and J.E. Stafford (2001). Smoothing and additive models for survey data via penalized least squares. 2001 Proceedings of the Survey Methods Section, Statistical Society of Canada, pp. 143 – 148.

8. Wang, Z. and D.R. Bellhouse (2001). Semi-parametric analysis of covariance for complex survey data. 2001 Proceedings of the Survey Methods Section, Statistical Society of Canada, pp. 155 – 160.

9. Bellhouse, D.R. (1999). 2001: a Bayes Odyssey. Chance 12(3): 48 – 50.

10. Bellhouse, D.R. (1999). Adventures in experimental design. Chance 12(2): 48 – 50.

11. Bellhouse, D.R. (1999). What I did on my summer holidays. Chance 12(1): 48 – 50.

12. Bellhouse, D.R. (1998). Lotto mania. Chance 11(4): 35 – 38.

13. Bellhouse, D.R. (1998). A random walk into Marxist-Leninist probability and statistics. Chance 11(3): 47-50. Letter to the editor on this article in Chance 11(4): 47 – 48.

14. Bellhouse, D.R. (1998). Stochastic music. Chance 11(2): 43 – 45.

15. Bellhouse, D.R. (1998). Literary probability and statistics. Chance 11(1): 34 – 37.

16. Bellhouse, D.R. (1997). Campanologia et ars combinatoria. Chance 10(3): 3 – 5.

17. Bellhouse, D.R. and V.P. Godambe (1997). Obituary of V.M. Joshi. Liaison 11(1): 24 – 27.

18. Bellhouse, D.R. and J. Franklin (1995). The language of chance. Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, Proceedings, Book III, pp. 1207 – 1223.

19. Bellhouse, D.R. and J.N.K. Rao (1994). Analysis of domain means in complex surveys. Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, pp. 29 – 34.

20. Bellhouse, D.R. (1993). The London plague statistics controversy of 1665. Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, Contributed Papers, Book I, pp. 95 – 96.

21. Bellhouse, D.R. (1993). My favourite ancestor - David Bellhouse of Manchester (Ontario Genealogical Society Essay Contest: Second Prize). Families 32(2): 81 – 84.

22. Bellhouse, D.R. (1992). The life and times of V.P. Godambe (banquet address). Proceedings of a Symposium in Honour of V.P. Godambe on the occasion of his 65th birthday, August 14-16, 1991, ed. Jihua Chen, University of Waterloo.

23. Bellhouse, D.R. (1992). The statistical work of C.H. Goulden. Liaison 6(3): 8 – 14.

24. Bellhouse, D.R. (1990). A Bayesian busman's holiday. Chance 3(4): 15 – 17, 47.

25. Bellhouse, D.R. (1990). Marginal and approximate conditional likelihoods for sampling on successive occasions. Analysis of Data in Time: Proceedings of the 1989 International Symposium, pp. 33 – 40. Statistics Canada: Ottawa.

26. Rao, J.N.K. and D.R. Bellhouse (1989). The history and development of the theoretical foundations of survey based estimation and statistical analysis. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Sesquicentennial Invited Paper Sessions, pp. 406 – 428.

27. Bellhouse, D.R. (1988-90). Letters to the editor on Thomas Bayes. Institute of Mathematical Statistics Bulletin 17: 276-278, 482-483; and 19: 478 – 479.

28. Rylett, D.T. and D.R. Bellhouse (1988). TREES - a computer program for complex surveys. Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, pp. 694 – 697.

29. Bellhouse, D.R. (1987). Me and the lotteries. Liaison 1(3): 40 – 45.

30. Bellhouse, D.R. (1987). A finding guide for the 1891 Census of Canada - in Manitoba. Generations 12(3): 9 – 14.

31. Bellhouse, D.R. (1986). Experimental design and survey sampling. Proceedings of the Conference on Survey Research for Methods in Agriculture Statistics, American Statistical Association and National Agricultural Statistics Service USDA, pp. 67 – 72.

32. Bellhouse, D.R. (1986). David Bellhouse and son: a Manchester building business. Manchester Memoirs, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 125: 76 – 89.

33. Bellhouse, D.R. and R.J. Byrom (1985). E.T. Bellhouse: a biography. Manchester Memoirs, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 124: 11 – 28.

34. Bellhouse, D.R. (1984). Tracing a family business history. Proceedings of the Ontario Genealogical Society Seminar '84, ed. T. Mann and J. Speers, pp. 67 – 72.

35. Bellhouse, D.R. (1982). Discussion of three papers on packaged programs for the analysis of complex surveys. Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, American Statistical Association, pp. 54 – 55.

36. Bellhouse, D.R. and H.H. Panjer (1981). Conditional interest rate models in life contingencies. ARCH, 1 – 19.

37. Panjer, H.H. and D.R. Bellhouse (1978). Theory of stochastic mortality and interest rates. ARCH, 123 – 153.

Other Publications

1. Bellhouse, D.R. (2010). Actuarial Science at The University of Western Ontario. Written to honour John Mereu on his retirement from the Department. Published online at http://www.stats.uwo.ca/bellhouse/Actuarial_Science_at_UWO.pdf

2. Bellhouse, D.R. (2010). Letters of Richard Price, 1768 – 1771 to John Edwards, actuary. In Chance and Assurance: Manuscripts of the work of Thomas Bayes, James Dodson, Richard Price and William Morgan. CD-ROM produced by the Institute of Actuaries.

3. Bellhouse, D.R. (2008). Review of Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830 – 1885 by Libby Schweber, Historia Mathematica 35: 249 – 252.

4. Bellhouse, D.R. (2007). Review of Sampling Methods: Exercises and Solutions by Pascal Ardilly and Yves Tillé, The American Statistician 61: 276.

5. Bellhouse, D.R. (2007). Review of The Art of Conjecturing, together with Letter to a Friend on Sets in Court Tennis by Jacob Bernoulli, translated with notes by Edith D. Sylla. Historia Mathematica 34: 435 – 436.

6. Bellhouse, D.R. (2004). Review of Most Honourable Remembrance: the Life and Work of Thomas Bayes, by Andrew I. Dale. Mathematical Intelligencer 26(3): 77 – 78.

7. Bellhouse, D.R. (1998). Discussion on a paper by Boyle. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (D): The Statistician 47: 313.

8. Bellhouse, D.R. (1997). Commentary on papers by Gray and Monette. Canadian Journal of Statistics 25: 311 – 314.

9. Bellhouse, D.R. (1996). Review of Creating Modern Probability, by Jan von Plato. Philosophia Mathematica, Series III 4: 290 – 291.

10. Bellhouse, D.R. (1993). Review of Prediction Theory for Finite Populations, by Heleno Bolfarine and Shelemyahu Zacks. Journal of the American Statistical Association 88: 1469 –1470.

11. Bellhouse, D.R. (1993). Invited commentary: p values, hypothesis tests and likelihood. American Journal of Epidemiology 137: 497 – 499.

12. Bellhouse, D.R. and P. Delhanty (1991). Statistical appendix to a paper by P. Delhanty, H. Leung and M. Locke entitled, "Paired cytoskeletal patterns in an epithelium of Siamese twin cells". European Journal of Cell Biology 56: 450.

13. Bellhouse, D.R. (1982). Letter to the editor. American Statistician 36: 36.

14. Bellhouse, D.R. (1981). Review of Survey Sampling and Multivariate Analysis for Social Scientists and Engineers, by Peter R. Stoper and Arnim H. Meyburg. Journal of the American Statistical Association 76: 750 – 751.

15. Panjer, H.H. and D.R. Bellhouse (1978). Discussion of “A multirisk stochastic process” by J.A. Beekman and C.P. Fuelling. Transactions of the Society of Actuaries 30: 399 – 404.