American mathematician and statistician
Theodore Wilbur Anderson (June 5, 1918 – September 17, 2016) was an American mathematician and
statistician who specialized in the analysis of
multivariate data .
He was born in
Minneapolis , Minnesota.
[2] He was on the faculty of
Columbia University from 1946 until moving to
Stanford University in 1967, becoming Emeritus Professor in 1988. He served as Editor of
Annals of Mathematical Statistics from 1950 to 1952. He was elected President of the
Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1962.
Anderson's 1958
[3] textbook, An Introduction to Multivariate Analysis ,
[4] educated a generation of theorists and applied statisticians; Anderson's book emphasizes
hypothesis testing via
likelihood ratio tests and the properties of
power functions :
Admissibility ,
unbiasedness and
monotonicity .
[5]
[6]
Anderson is also known for
Anderson–Darling test of whether there is evidence that a given sample of data did not arise from a given probability distribution.
He also framed the
Anderson–Bahadur algorithm
[7] along with
Raghu Raj Bahadur , which is used in statistics and engineering for solving binary classification problems when the underlying data have
multivariate normal distributions with different
covariance matrices .
Awards and honors
He was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946.
[8]
In 1949 he was elected a
Fellow of the American Statistical Association .
[9]
He was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974.
[10]
He was a member of the
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters .
[11]
Anderson died in September 2016 at the age of 98 in Stanford, California after experiencing heart problems.
[12]
Selected bibliography
Books
Anderson, T.W. (2004). An introduction to multivariate statistical analysis (3rd ed.). New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Anderson, T.W. (1971). The Statistical Analysis of Time Series . New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Chapters in books
Anderson, T.W. (1960), "Some Stochastic process models for intelligence test scores", in
Arrow, Kenneth J. ;
Karlin, Samuel ;
Suppes, Patrick (eds.), Mathematical models in the social sciences, 1959: Proceedings of the first Stanford symposium , Stanford mathematical studies in the social sciences, IV, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, pp. 205–220,
ISBN
9780804700214 .
References
^ Taylor, John B. (September 24, 2016).
"The Statistical Analysis of Policy Rules" . economicsone.com . Economics One (A blog by John B. Taylor). Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
^
"IWMS´08 - 17th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics" . www.ccc.ipt.pt . Retrieved 2016-06-12 .
^ Täonu Kollo; Dietrich von Rosen (1 January 2005).
Advanced Multivariate Statistics with Matrices . Springer. pp. 13–.
ISBN
978-1-4020-3419-0 . Retrieved 17 June 2013 .
^ Anderson, T.W. (2004). An introduction to multivariate statistical analysis (3rd ed.). New York: John Wiley and Sons.
ISBN
9789812530967 .
^
Sen, Pranab Kumar ; Anderson, T. W.; Arnold, S. F.; Eaton, M. L.; Giri, N. C.; Gnanadesikan, R.; Kendall, M. G.; Kshirsagar, A. M.; et al. (June 1986). "Review: Contemporary Textbooks on Multivariate Statistical Analysis: A Panoramic Appraisal and Critique".
Journal of the American Statistical Association . 81 (394): 560–564.
doi :
10.2307/2289251 .
ISSN
0162-1459 .
JSTOR
2289251 . (Pages 560–561)
^ Schervish, Mark J. (November 1987).
"A Review of Multivariate Analysis" . Statistical Science . 2 (4): 396–413.
doi :
10.1214/ss/1177013111 .
ISSN
0883-4237 .
JSTOR
2245530 .
^ Classification into two
multivariate normal distributions with different
covariance matrices (1962), T W Anderson, R R Bahadur, Annals of Mathematical Statistics
^
"Search Results: Theodore Anderson" . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . Archived from
the original on 20 September 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2011 .
^
View/Search Fellows of the ASA , accessed 2016-07-23.
^
"Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF) . American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 18 April 2011 .
^
"Gruppe 8: Samfunnsfag (herunder sosiologi, statsvitenskap og økonomi)" (in Norwegian).
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters . Retrieved 9 January 2011 .
^
"Theodore W. Anderson 1918‒2016 | Department of Statistics" . statistics.stanford.edu . Archived from
the original on 2016-09-21.
External links
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