Now even I am pitching a book deal

I had a long chat yesterday with Bill England, Acquisitions Editor for Kendall/Hunt Publishing. I was surprised to hear that these folks can make money with press runs of as few as 200 paperback textbooks. Bill was interested in my idea of a supplemental text for statistics courses consisting of original papers outlining many of the key ideas in modern statistics. Each paper would be followed by a short, simple worked example, so students can read a paper, then take it out for a spin.

So far, I have two candidate papers:

• Simpson’s Paradox: Simpson,E. H. (1951). "The Interpretation of Interaction in Contingency Tables". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Ser. B 13: 238-241. (Thanks, Wikipedia)
• The Bootstrap: Efron, B. (1979). "Bootstrap methods: another look at the jackknife". Annals of Statistics 7, 1-26. (this reference may change — Efron wrote a lot.)

My goal is somewhere around 20 papers, margin of error unknown. Any suggestions, recommendations, favorites?