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Danish statistician (1913–2007)
Anders Hjorth Hald (3 July 1913 – 11 November 2007) was a Danish
statistician . He was a professor at the
University of Copenhagen 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 .
Hald was a Fellow of the
American Statistical Association , 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 , and a Corresponding Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh .
Bibliography
A History of Parametric Statistical Inference from Bernoulli to Fisher, 1713–1935 . New York: Springer. 2007.
ISBN
978-0-387-46408-4 .
A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750 . Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. 2003.
ISBN
0-471-47129-1 .
A History of Mathematical Statistics from 1750 to 1930 . New York: Wiley. 1998.
ISBN
0-471-17912-4 .
Statistical theory of sampling inspection by attributes . London: Academic Press. 1981.
ISBN
0-12-318350-2 .
Statistical Theory with Engineering Applications . New York: Wiley. 1952.
Statistical Tables and Formulas . New York: Wiley. 1952.
"
T. N. Thiele 's contributions to statistics",
International Statistical Review , 49, number 1 (1981): 1–20. (Reprinted in
Steffen L. Lauritzen , ed. (2002). Thiele: Pioneer in Statistics .
Oxford University Press . )
"The early history of the
cumulants and the
Gram–Charlier series ",
International Statistical Review , 68, number 2 (2000): 137–153. (Reprinted in
Steffen L. Lauritzen , ed. (2002).
Thiele : Pioneer in Statistics .
Oxford University Press . )
In Danish
Statistiske Metoder , 1949
Statistisk Kvalitetskontrol , 1954
Statistiske Metoder i Arbejdsstudierteknikken , 1955
Elementær Lærebog i Statistisk Kvalitetskontrol , 1956
References
External links
International National Academics Other