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List Of Statisticians
This list of statisticians lists people who have made notable contributions to the theories or application of statistics, or to the related fields of probability or machine learning. It includes the founders of statistics and others. It includes some 17th- and 18th-century mathematicians and polymaths whose work is regarded as influential in shaping the later discipline of statistics. Also included are various actuaries, economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...s, and demographers known for providing leadership in applying statistics to their fields. __NOTOC__ A * Aalen, Odd Olai * Abbey, Helen (1915–2001) * Abbott, Edith (1876–1957) * Abelson, Robert P. (1928–2005) * Abramovitz, Moses (1912–2000) * Achenwall, Gottfried (1719–1772) * Adelst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Statistician
A statistician is a person who works with Theory, theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private sector, private and public sectors. It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, and statisticians may work as employees or as statistical consultants. Overview According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of 2014, 26,970 jobs were classified as ''statistician'' in the United States. Of these people, approximately 30 percent worked for governments (federal, state, or local). As of October 2021, the median pay for statisticians in the United States was $92,270. Additionally, there is a substantial number of people who use statistics and data analysis in their work but have job titles other than ''statistician'', such as Actuary, actuaries, Applied mathematics, applied mathematicians, economists, data scientists, data analysts (predictive analytics), financial analysts, psychometricians, sociologists, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Adkins
Dorothy Christina Adkins (April 6, 1912 – December 19, 1975) was an American psychologist. Adkins is best known for her work in psychometrics and education testing, particularly in achievement testing. She was the first female president of the Psychometric Society and served in several roles in the American Psychological Association. Early life Adkins was born on April 6, 1912, in Atlanta, a town in Pickaway County, Ohio. Adkins father, George Hoadley Adkins, worked as a businessman as well as a farmer and her mother, Peal F. James-Adkins worked as a teacher at a local school. Dorothy was the couple's third child. Education She attended public school in Atlanta until graduation in 1927. Growing up, Adkins developed a love of music, which led her to later study violin at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. After only one year at the Conservatory, she quit to pursue a degree in mathematics from Ohio State University. Her interest in mathematics quickly drew her to statistics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskar Anderson
Oskar Johann Viktor Anderson (; ] – 12 February 1960) was a Russian-German mathematician of Baltic German descent. He is best known for his work on mathematical statistics and econometrics. Life Anderson was born from a Baltic German family in Minsk (now in Belarus), but soon moved to Kazan (Russia). His father, Nikolai Anderson, was professor in Finno-Ugric languages at the University of Kazan. His older brothers were the folklorist Walter Anderson and the astrophysicist Wilhelm Anderson. Oskar Anderson graduated from Kazan Gymnasium with a gold medal in 1906. After studying mathematics for one year at the University of Kazan, he moved to St. Petersburg to study economics at the Polytechnic Institute. From 1907 to 1915, he was Aleksandr Chuprov's student and assistant. In 1912 he married Margarethe Natalie von Hindenburg-Hirtenberg, a granddaughter of who was commemorated in "The Funeral of 'The Universal Man'" in Dostoyevsky's A Writer's Diary, and started lecturing at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeshi Amemiya
is an economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece. Amemiya is the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics (emeritus) and a professor of classics at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Statistical Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985). Education *B.A., 1958, Social Science, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan *M.A., 1961, Economics, American University, Washington, DC *Ph.D., 1964, Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Honors and awards * U.S. Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation () is a foundation that promotes international academic cooperation between scientists and scholars from Germany and abroad. Established by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, it is funded by t ..., 1988 * Fellowship, Japan Society for Promotion of Science, 1989 * Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Altman
Naomi Altman is a statistician known for her work on kernel smoothing and kernel regression, and interested in applications of statistics to gene expression and genomics. She is a professor of statistics at Pennsylvania State University, and a regular columnist for the "Points of Significance" column in ''Nature Methods''. Education and career Altman studied mathematics at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1974, and spent two years teaching at Government Teacher's Training College in Lafia, Nigeria. Returning to Canada, she earned a master's degree in statistics from Toronto in 1979. After working as a statistical consultant at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia, she completed her doctorate in 1988 at Stanford University. Her dissertation, supervised by Iain M. Johnstone, was ''Smoothing Data with Correlated Errors''. She joined the Cornell University faculty, in the Biometrics Unit, and became chair of the Department of Biometrics there from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Altman
Douglas Graham Altman FMedSci (12 July 1948 – 3 June 2018) was an English statistician best known for his work on improving the reliability and reporting of medical research and for highly cited papers on statistical methodology. He was professor of statistics in medicine at the University of Oxford, founder and Director of Centre for Statistics in Medicine and Cancer Research UK Medical Statistics Group, and co-founder of the international Equator Network for health research reliability. Professional career Doug Altman graduated in 1970 with an honours degree in statistics from Bath University of Technology, now the University of Bath. His first job was in the Department of Community Medicine, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London. He then spent 11 years working for the Medical Research Council's Clinical Research Centre where he worked almost entirely as a statistical consultant in a wide variety of medical areas. In 1988 Doug Altman became head of the newly f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David B
David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known as David Bowie ( ), was an English singer, songwriter and actor. Regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Bowie was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft have had a great impact on popular music. Bowie studied art, music and design before embarking on a professional career as a musician in 1963. He released a string of unsuccessful singles with local bands and David Bowie (1967 album), a self-titled solo album (1967) before achieving his first top-five entry on the UK singles chart with "Space Oddity" (1969). After a period of experimentation, he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the alter ego Ziggy Stardust (character), Ziggy Stardust. The success of the single "Starman (song), Starman" and its album ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Allan
Frances Elizabeth Allan (11 July 1905 – 6 August 1952) was an Australian statistician. She was known as the first statistician at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), as "the effective founder of the CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics", and for her advocacy of biometrics. Allan was born on 11 July 1905 in St Kilda, Victoria; her parents were both journalists with '' The Argus'', and she was one of four sisters. As a schoolgirl, she attended the Melbourne Church of England Girls' Grammar School. She studied mathematics at the University of Melbourne, earning a bachelor's degree in 1926 and a master's in 1928 for her work with John Henry Michell on solitary waves on liquid-liquid interfaces. In 1928 Allan traveled on a scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge, where she studied applied mathematics, statistics, applied biology, and general agriculture. A year later, she travelled to Rothamsted Experimental Station in Hertforshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Aliaga
Martha Beatriz Bilotti-Aliaga (1937 – October 15, 2011) was an Argentine statistics educator, who served as the president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. Early life and education Martha Beatriz Bilotti was born in Mendoza, Argentina, and did her undergraduate studies at the University of Buenos Aires. She earned a master's degree in Santiago, Chile, at the Inter-American Center for the Teaching of Statistics. She completed a doctorate in statistics at the University of Michigan in 1986; her dissertation, supervised by Michael B. Woodroofe, was ''A problem in sequential analysis''. Personal life She married Alfredo Aliaga of Columbia, Maryland, and they had three children: Viviana, Pablo and Eduardo. Career After teaching in the Dominican Republic, she moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to become an associate professor at the University of Michigan in 1972. She taught from 1981 to 1985 at American University, and in the late 1980s at both the University of the District of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirotsugu Akaike
was a Japanese statistician. In the early 1970s, he formulated the Akaike information criterion (AIC). AIC is now widely used for model selection, which is commonly the most difficult aspect of statistical inference; additionally, AIC is the basis of a paradigm for the foundations of statistics. Akaike also made major contributions to the study of time series. As well, he had a large role in the general development of statistics in Japan. Akaike information criterion The Akaike information criterion (AIC) is an estimator of the relative quality of statistical models for a given set of data. Given a collection of models for the data, AIC estimates the quality of each model, relative to each of the other models. Thus, AIC provides a means for model selection. AIC was first formally described in a research paper by . As of October 2014, the paper had received more than 14000 citations in the Web of Science: making it the 73rd most-cited research paper of all time. (As of April 2016, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Aitken
Alexander Craig "Alec" Aitken (1 April 1895 – 3 November 1967) was one of New Zealand's most eminent mathematicians. In a 1935 paper he introduced the concept of generalized least squares, along with now standard vector/matrix notation for the linear regression model. Another influential paper co-authored with his student Harold Silverstone established the lower bound on the variance of an estimator, now known as Cramér–Rao bound. He was elected to the Royal Society of Literature for his World War I memoir, ''Gallipoli to the Somme''. Life and work Aitken was born on 1 April 1895 in Dunedin, the eldest of the seven children of Elizabeth Towers and William Aitken. He was of Scottish descent, his grandfather having emigrated from Lanarkshire in 1868. His mother was from Wolverhampton. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin (1908–13) where he was school dux and won the Thomas Baker Calculus Scholarship in his last year at school. He saw active serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Aitchison
John Aitchison (22 July 1926 – 23 December 2016) was a Scottish statistician. Career John Aitchison studied at the University of Edinburgh after being uncomfortable explaining to his headmaster that he didn’t plan to attend university. He graduated in 1947 with an MA in mathematics. After two years wherein he did actuarial work, he also attended Trinity College, Cambridge. He had a scholarship to do so, and graduated in 1951 with a BA focused on statistics. The year after he graduated, he joined the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge as a statistician. He continued his work at Cambridge until 1956, when he was offered the position of Lecturer of Statistics at the University of Glasgow. During his time at Glasgow, he wrote ''The Lognormal Distribution, With Special Reference to its Uses in Economics (1957)'' with J A C Brown (who he met at Cambridge). However, he left Glasgow in 1962, when the University of Liverpool offered him the positions of Senior Lecturer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
