ABSTRACT
NBS Handbook 91: Experimental Statistics was first published in 1963. The material for the book was originally commissioned and printed in a limited edition by the US Army as a series of five Army Ordnance Pamphlets OSRDDP 20-110-114. The publication was prepared in the Statistical Engineering Laboratory (SEL) of National Bureau of Standards (NBS) under a contract with the former Office of Ordnance Research. It is a monumental work which brings together under one cover the combined experience and expertise of the Statistical Engineering Laboratory. Mary Gibbons Natrella was principal author with overall responsibility for the entire publication, but there are contributions on polynomial and multivariable relationships, sensitivity testing, use of transformations, and expression of uncertainties by other members of the SEL. Mary Natrella joined the Statistical Engineering Laboratory of NBS as a mathematical statistician in April 1950 after Churchill Eisenhart noticed her work as a sampling inspection expert in the US Navy's Bureau of Ships.
