Anders Hald
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Anders Hald was a Danish
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 statistician
Statistician
A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...

 who made contributions to the history of statistics.
He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Denmark. Founded in 1479, it has more than 37,000 students, the majority of whom are female , and more than 7,000 employees. The university has several campuses located in and around Copenhagen, with the...

from 1960 to 1982.

In Danish

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

External links

There is a photograph at

There is an obituary by Neils Keiding at

Hald was a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and there is an obituary by David Finney at

There is a bibliography of Hald's writings on the history of statistics at
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