Phillip Good

Phillip I. Good (born in 1937) is a Canadian-American mathematical statistician. He was educated at McGill University 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 ^[1]. 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 data ^[2], an exact test for comparing variances, and an exact test for cross-over designs ^[3].

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 Boobstrap 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 microcomputers in business as well as several hundred articles on microcomputers in over a dozen different computer magazines. He is the writer of some 21 mss of novels and two collections of short stories he self-published in the vanity press called zanybooks.com.

1. ^ Reduced humeral immune activity in long-lived mice (with T. Makinodan, JW Albright, CP Peter, and ML Heidrick), Immunology 31(76)400.
2. ^ Globally almost most powerful tests for censored data, J Nonpar Statist 1(92)253-262.
3. ^ Good P. and Xie F. Analysis of a crossover clinical trial by permutation methods. Contemporary Clinical Trials 2008; 29:565-568