Christopher Tong

List of Selected Publications and Abstracts

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Miscellaneous Correspondence and Commentary

C. Tong, 2021: The statistical endeavors of Andrew Carnegie. Chance, 34 (4), 12-17.
- Erratum: The beginning of the third to last paragraph on the last page should read: “By contemporary standards, Andrew Carnegie is not a statistician, nor would his modern counterparts–CEOs of modern companies–be considered statisticians…”
- This article is discussed in Episode 216 of the Stats+Stories podcast, Carnegie the Statistician (Jan. 27, 2022).
- Presented (virtually) at the Nevada Statistics Symposium, 25 March 2022. Notes from that presentation may be found here.

C. Tong, 2025: The fluid mechanics research of Laura Bassi (1711-1778). American Physical Society Far West Section Annual Meeting, 10-12 October 2025, Santa Cruz, CA, I04.3.
C. Tong, 2024: D/Dt or d/dt for the material derivative? The views of Sir George, Sir Harold, Lady Bertha, Sir James, and other friends. American Physical Society 77th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, 24-26 November 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, X32.00010.

C. Tong, 2005: Book review of Methods of Multivariate Analysis, second edition, by Alvin C. Rencher. IIE Transactions, 37, 1083-1085.
- IIE = Institute of Industrial Engineers.

C. Tong, 2024: Danger! Systematic error! [Response to Robert Matthews.] Significance, 21 (4), 46-47.
C. Tong, 2015: Response to Mark van der Laan, “Statistics as a science, not an art: the way to survive in data science”. Amstat News, issue 455 (May 2015), 34-35.
C. Tong, 2012: Response to H. A. David, “Euler’s contributions to mathematics useful in statistics”. The American Statistician, 66: 75.
C. Tong, 2004: Parallel universes in the statistics literature. [Response to Derek York, Norman M. Evensen, Margarita Lopez Martinez, and Jonas de Basabe Delgado.] American Journal of Physics, 72: 1367.
C. Tong, 2003: Further comments on the review times for statistics and physics journals. [Response to Larry Wasserman.] IMS Bulletin, 32 (4): 10.
- IMS = Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
C. Tong, 2002: Various formulations of classical mechanics. [Response to Daniel F. Styer et al.] American Journal of Physics, 70: 664.
C. Tong, 2001: Physics and quality. [Repsonse to Mark Annett.] The Industrial Physicist, 7 (3), 4.
C. Tong, 1996: Torsional pendulums and SQUIDs. [Response to Randall D. Peters.] American Journal of Physics, 64: 1227-1228.
C. Tong, 1995: Answer to Question #4, “Is there a physics application that is best analyzed in terms of continued fractions?”. [Repsonse to Dwight E. Neuenschwander.] American Journal of Physics, 63: 109.