Anders Hjorth Hald (3 July 1913 – 11 November 2007) was a Danish

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, a ...

. He was a professor at the

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from 1960 to 1982. While a professor, he did research in industrial quality control and other areas, and also authored textbooks. After retirement, he made important contributions to the

history of statistics Statistics, in the modern sense of the word, began evolving in the 18th century in response to the novel needs of industrializing Westphalian sovereignty, sovereign states. In early times, the meaning was restricted to information about states, pa ...

. Hald was a Fellow of the

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, a Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, a Member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, an Honorary Fellow of the

Royal Statistical Society The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is an established statistical society. It has three main roles: a British learned society for statistics, a professional body for statisticians and a charity which promotes statistics for the public good. ...

, and a Corresponding Fellow of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was establis ...

Bibliography

* * * * * * * " T. N. Thiele's contributions to statistics", ''

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'', 49, number 1 (1981): 1–20. (Reprinted in ) * "The early history of the

cumulant In probability theory and statistics, the cumulants of a probability distribution are a set of quantities that provide an alternative to the '' moments'' of the distribution. Any two probability distributions whose moments are identical will have ...

s and the Gram–Charlier series", ''

'', 68, number 2 (2000): 137–153. (Reprinted in )

In Danish

* ''Statistiske Metoder'', 1949 * ''Statistisk Kvalitetskontrol'', 1954 * ''Statistiske Metoder i Arbejdsstudierteknikken'', 1955 * ''Elementær Lærebog i Statistisk Kvalitetskontrol'', 1956

References

* '' Kraks Blå Bog 1984'' * There is an obituary by Neils Keiding at
''IMS Bulletin'' 37, issue 1 (2008)
p. 12. * The Royal Society of Edinburgh has an obituary, written by David Finney, at
ANDERS H. HALD

External links

* There is a photograph at Anders Hald
on th

page. *There is a bibliography of Hald's writings on the history of statistics at Anders Hald (1913–2007): Writings on the History of Probability and Statistics
in th

1913 births 2007 deaths Danish mathematicians 20th-century American mathematicians Danish statisticians 20th-century Danish historians Danish historians of mathematics Fellows of the American Statistical Association {{Statistician-stub