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• Aalen, Odd Olai
  Odd Aalen
  Odd Olai Aalen is a Norwegian statistician and is a professor at the Department of Basic Medical Sciences at the University of Oslo....
  
   (1947–)
• Abbott, Edith
  Edith Abbott
  Edith Abbott was an American economist, social worker, educator, and author. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Her younger sister was Grace Abbott....
  
  
• Abelson, Robert P.
  Robert P. Abelson
  Robert Paul Abelson was a Yale University psychologist and political scientist with special interests in statistics and logic....
  
  
• Abramovitz, Moses
  Moses Abramovitz
  Moses Abramovitz was an American economist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied economics at Harvard University and earned a doctorate at Columbia University. In 1945 and 1946, he was economic adviser to the United States representative on the Allied Reparations Commission...
  
  
• Achenwall, Gottfried
  Gottfried Achenwall
  Gottfried Achenwall was a German philosopher, historian, economist, jurist and statistician. He is counted among the inventors of statistics.-Biography:...
  
   (1719–1772)
• Adelstein, Abraham Manie
  Abraham Manie Adelstein
  Abraham Manie "Abe" Adelstein was a South African born doctor who became the United Kingdom's Chief Medical Statistician.-Career:...
  
   (1916–1992)
• Ahsan, Riaz
  Riaz Ahsan
  Dr. Prof. Riaz Ahsan , was a Pakistani statistician and mathematician who has worked in applied statistics, applied analysis, applications of special functions. He was a noted professor of applied statistics in University of Karachi, Karachi. Previously, he has served as the president of Sindh...
  
   (1951–2008)
• Aitchison, John
  John Aitchison
  John Aitchison is a Scottish statistician. He studied at the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge. From 1966 to 1976 he was Titular Professor of Statistics, and Mitchell Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Glasgow. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1968...
  
   (1926–)
• Aitken, Alexander
  Alexander Aitken
  Alexander Craig Aitken was one of New Zealand's greatest mathematicians. He studied for a PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where his dissertation, "Smoothing of Data", was considered so impressive that he was awarded a DSc in 1926, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh...
  
   (1895–1967)
• Akaike, Hirotsugu
  Hirotsugu Akaike
  was a Japanese statistician. In the early 1970s he formulated an information criterion for model identification which has become known as the Akaike information criterion.-Awards:...
  
   (1927–2009)
• Ali, Mir Masoom
  Mir Masoom Ali
  Mir Masoom Ali , a Bangladeshi American, is a renowned Statistician, Distinguished Professor, prominent educator, researcher, and author. He came to the United States in 1969 and became a naturalized citizen in 1981. Dr. Ali founded the graduate and undergraduate programs in Statistics at Ball...
  
  
• Allen, R. G. D.
  R. G. D. Allen
  Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA was an English economist, mathematician and statistician.Allen was born in Worcester and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester, from which he won a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge...
  
  
• Allison, David B.
  David B. Allison
  Dr. David Bradley Allison is currently Distinguished Professor, Head of the Section on Statistical Genetics, and Director of the NIH funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center...
  
  
• Altman, Doug
  Doug Altman
  Professor Douglas G. Altman is a British statistician. He is the Founder and Director of Centre for Statistics in Medicine and Cancer Research UK Medical Statistics Group....
  
  
• Amemiya, Takeshi
  Takeshi Amemiya
  is an economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece.Amemiya is the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics and a Professor of Classics at Stanford University...
  
  
• Anderson, Oskar
  Oskar Anderson
  Oskar Johann Viktor Anderson was a German-Russian mathematician. He was most famously known for his work on mathematical statistics.- Life :...
  
   (1887–1960)
• Anderson, Theodore Wilbur
  Theodore Wilbur Anderson
  Theodore Wilbur Anderson is an American mathematician and statistician who has specialized in the analysis of multivariate data.Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946....
  
  
• Anscombe, Francis
  Francis Anscombe
  Francis John Anscombe was a statistician.Born in Hove in England, Anscombe was educated at Trinity College at Cambridge University...
  
  
• Anselin, Luc
  Luc Anselin
  -Life and contributions:Luc Anselin is currently Walter Isard Chair and Director of the where he attracted some of the leading spatial econometrics scholars. He also founded and directs the at ASU to develop, implement, apply, and disseminate spatial analysis methods...
  
  
• Armitage, Peter
  Peter Armitage
  Peter Armitage is a statistician specialising in medical statistics.Peter Armitage attended Huddersfield College and went on to read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Armitage belonged to the generation of mathematicians who came to maturity in the Second World War...
  
   (1924–)
• Arrow, Kenneth
  Kenneth Arrow
  Kenneth Joseph Arrow is an American economist and joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. To date, he is the youngest person to have received this award, at 51....
  
  
• Ashley-Cooper, Anthony
  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
  Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury KG , styled Lord Ashley from 1811 to 1851, was an English politician and philanthropist, one of the best-known of the Victorian era and one of the main proponents of Christian Zionism.-Youth:He was born in London and known informally as Lord Ashley...
  
  
• Austin, Oscar Phelps
  Oscar Phelps Austin
  Oscar Phelps Austin was an American statistician, born in Newark, Illinois, and educated in public schools. The earlier years of his life were spent in journalism, and he served as reporter, editor, and Washington correspondent for metropolitan dailies.He studied statistics, and in 1898 was...
  
  
• Ayres, Leonard Porter
  Leonard Porter Ayres
  Leonard Porter Ayres was an American educator, soldier, and statistician.-Biography:Ayres was born at Niantic, Conn. He received his college and graduate training at Boston, Harvard, and Columbia universities....
  
  

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• Bahadur, Raghu Raj
  Raghu Raj Bahadur
  Raghu Raj Bahadur was an Indian born mathematical statistician considered by peers to be "one of the architects of the modern theory of mathematical statistics"...
  
   (1924–1997)
• Balding, David
  David Balding
  David Balding is an Australian statistician and Professor in Statistical Genetics at University College London. Until October 2009 he was a Professor in Statistical Genetics Imperial College London, where he still retains an affiliation as Visiting Professor...
  
  
• Barnard, George Alfred
  George Alfred Barnard
  George Alfred Barnard was a British statistician known particularly for his work on the foundations of statistics and on quality control.-Biography:...
  
   (1915–2002)
• Barnett, William A.
  William A. Barnett
  William Arnold Barnett is an American economist whose current work is in the field of chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinearity in socioeconomic contexts, as well as the study of the aggregation problem....
  
  
• Bartels, Julius
  Julius Bartels
  Julius Bartels was a German geophysicist and statistician who made notable contributions to the physics of the Sun and Moon; to geomagnetism and meteorology; and to the physics of the ionosphere. He also made fundamental contributions to statistical methods for geophysics...
  
  
• Bartlett, M. S.
  M. S. Bartlett
  Maurice Stevenson Bartlett FRS was an English statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns...
  
   (1910–2002)
• Bascand, Geoff
  Geoff Bascand
  Geoff Bascand is the Government Statistician of New Zealand and the Chief Executive of Statistics New Zealand. He was appointed to these positions on 22 May 2007.-Background:...
  
  
• Basu, Debabrata
  Debabrata Basu
  Debabrata Basu was a mathematical statistician who made fundamental contributions to the foundations of statistics. Basu invented simple examples that displayed some difficulties of likelihood-based statistics and frequentist statistics; Basu's paradoxes were especially important in the...
  
   (1924–2001)
• Baxter, Laurence
  Laurence Baxter
  Laurence Alan Baxter was professor of statistics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.-Early life:...
  
   (1954–1996)
• Bayes, Thomas
  Thomas Bayes
  Thomas Bayes was an English mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for having formulated a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem...
  
   (1702–1761)
• Beale, Calvin
  Calvin Beale
  Calvin Lunsford Beale was an American demographer who specialized in rural population trends. He first identified a reverse in population decline in some rural areas, and his work led to development of the Beale code for categorizing rural development.-Life and career:He was born in Northeast...
  
  
• Behm, Ernst
  Ernst Behm
  Ernst Behm was a German geographer and statistician who was a native of Gotha.Behm studied medicine and sciences at the Universities of Jena, Berlin and Würzburg, and in 1856 began work as an editor at Petermanns Geographischen Mitteilungen in Gotha...
  
  
• Benjamin, Bernard
  Bernard Benjamin
  -External links:* :...
  
  
• Benzécri, Jean-Paul
  Jean-Paul Benzécri
  Jean-Paul Benzécri is a French statistician. He studied at École Normale Supérieure and has been professor at Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in Paris. He is most famous for the development of the Correspondence analysis, a statistical technique for analyzing contingency tables...
  
  
• Berger, James
• Berkson, Joseph
  Joseph Berkson
  Joseph Berkson was trained as a physicist , physician , and statistician . In 1950, as Head of the Division of Biometry and Medical Statistics of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, Berkson wrote a key paper entitled Are there two regressions?...
  
  
• Bernardo, José-Miguel
  José-Miguel Bernardo
  José-Miguel Bernardo is a Spanish mathematician and statistician. A noted Bayesian, he is currently a professor of Statistics at the University of Valencia.He is a founding co-President of the...
  
  
• Berry, Don
  Don Berry (statistician)
  Donald Arthur Berry is a statistician and one of the proponents of Bayesian statistics. He has been the chairman of the Department of Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center since 1999, where he has played a role in the use of Bayesian methods...
  
  
• Best, Alfred M.
  Alfred M. Best
  Alfred M. Best was an American actuary, born in Caldwell, New Jersey, US.At the age of 15, Best began his career in the insurance industry as a junior clerk with the Queen Insurance Company of America in New York. He continued to work in the insurance field for various companies over the next six...
  
  
• Beveridge, William
  William Beveridge
  William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge KCB was a British economist and social reformer. He is best known for his 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services which served as the basis for the post-World War II welfare state put in place by the Labour government elected in 1945.Lord...
  
  
• Bhat, B. R.
  B. R. Bhat
  Beliyar Ramdas Bhat was a professor and head of the department of statistics at Karnataka University, Dharwad for more than two decades. He was elected member of International Statistical Institute, and Fellow of Royal Statistical Society....
  
  
• Bhat, P. N. Mari
  P. N. Mari Bhat
  P. N. Mari Bhat , distinguished Indian demographer, was a student of Samuel H. Preston at the University of Pennsylvania from where he received his Ph.D. in 1987. At the time of his death he was the director of the International Institute of Population Science in Mumbai, which he formerly attended...
  
  
• Bhat, U. Narayan
  U. Narayan Bhat
  U. Narayan Bhat is an Indian born Mathematician, known for his contributions to queueing theory and reliability theory.-Academic career:...
  
  
• Bienaymé, Irénée-Jules
  Irénée-Jules Bienaymé
  Irénée-Jules Bienaymé , was a French statistician. He built on the legacy of Laplace generalizing his least squares method. He contributed to the fields and probability, and statistics and to their application to finance, demography and social sciences...
  
  
• Bingham, Christopher
  Christopher Bingham
  Christopher Bingham is an American statistician who introduced the Bingham distribution. In joint work with C. M. D. Godfrey and John Tukey he introduced complex demodulation into the analysis of time series.-External links:* faculty web page...
  
  
• Birnbaum, Allan
  Allan Birnbaum
  Allan Birnbaum was an American statistician who contributed to statistical inference, foundations of statistics, statistical genetics, statistical psychology, and history of statistics....
  
   (1923–1976)
• Bisika, Thomas John
  Thomas John Bisika
  Thomas John Bisika, a Social Demographer and Public Health Specialist cum diplomat, is a Health Systems Specialist at World Health Organization in Nigeria.-Academic career:...
  
  
• Blackwell, David
  David Blackwell
  -Honors and awards:*President, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1956*National Academy of Sciences, 1965*American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1968*Honorary Fellow, Royal Statistical Society, 1976*Vice President, American Statistical Association, 1978...
  
   (1919–)
• Bliss, Chester Ittner
  Chester Ittner Bliss
  Chester Ittner Bliss was primarily a biologist, who is best known for his contributions to statistics. He was born in Springfield, Ohio in 1899 and died in 1979.-Academic qualifications:*Bachelor of Arts in Entomology from Ohio State University, 1921...
  
  
• Block, Maurice
  Maurice Block
  Maurice Block was a German-French statistician and economist.He was born in Berlin of Jewish parents. He studied at Bonn and Giessen, but settled in Paris, becoming naturalized there. In 1844 he entered the French ministry of agriculture, becoming in 1852 one of the heads of the statistical...
  
  
• Bloom, David E.
  David E. Bloom
  David E. Bloom is an economist and demographer. He is currently the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at Harvard University and director of its Program on the Global Demography of Aging. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
  
  
• Bodio, Luigi
  Luigi Bodio
  Luigi Bodio was an Italian economist and statistician, among the founders of Italian Statistics...
  
  
• Bodmer, Walter
  Walter Bodmer
  Sir Walter Bodmer is a German-born British human geneticist. His father being Jewish, the family left Germany in 1938 and settled in Manchester. Bodmer has developed models for population genetics and done work on the human leukocyte antigen system and the use of somatic cell hybrids for human...
  
  
• Bonferroni, Carlo Emilio
  Carlo Emilio Bonferroni
  Carlo Emilio Bonferroni was an Italian mathematician who worked on probability theory. Carlo Emilio Bonferroni was born in Bergamo on 28 January 1892 and died on 18 August 1960 in Firenze . He studied in Torino , held a post as assistant professor at the Turin Polytechnic, and in 1923 took up the...
  
   (1892–1960)
• Booth, Charles
  Charles Booth (philanthropist)
  Charles Booth was an English philanthropist and social researcher. He is most famed for his innovative work on documenting working class life in London at the end of the 19th century, work that along with that of Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree influenced government intervention against poverty in the...
  
  
• Boreham, John
  John Boreham
  Sir John Boreham, KCB was a government statistician and the director of what was the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom from 1978 to 1985...
  
  
• Bortkiewicz, Ladislaus
  Ladislaus Bortkiewicz
  Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz , August 7, 1868 – July 15, 1931) was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish descent, who lived most of his professional life in Germany, where he taught at Strassburg University and Berlin University...
  
   (1868–1931)
• Bose, R. C. (1901–1987)
• Botha, Roelof
  Roelof Botha
  Roelof F. Botha is a venture capitalist and company director. By training, he is a qualified actuary.Botha is a partner at Sequoia Capital and sits on the board of Eventbrite, Jawbone, Mahalo, Meebo, Nimbula, Square, Tokbox, Tumblr, Unity and Xoom...
  
  
• Bottou, Léon
  Léon Bottou
  Léon Bottou is a researcher best known for his work in machine learning and data compression. His work presents stochastic gradient descent as a fundamental learning algorithm. He is also one of the main creators of the DjVu image compression technology , and the maintainer of , the open source...
  
  
• Bowley, Arthur Lyon
  Arthur Lyon Bowley
  Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley was an English statistician and economist who worked on economic statistics and pioneered the use of sampling techniques in social surveys....
  
   (1869–1957)
• Box, George E. P.
  George E. P. Box
  - External links :* from a at NIST* * * * * *** For Box's PhD students see*...
  
   (1919–)
• Boyle, Phelim
  Phelim Boyle
  Phelim Boyle , a distinguished professor and actuary, is a professor of finance in the Laurier School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada and is a pioneer of quantitative finance. He is best known for initiating the use of Monte Carlo methods in option pricing...
  
  
• Brad, Ion Ionescu de la
  Ion Ionescu de la Brad
  Ion Ionescu de la Brad , born Ion Isăcescu, was a Moldavian-born Romanian revolutionary, agronomist, statistician, scholar and writer....
  
   (1818–1891)
• Brassey, Thomas
  Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey
  Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey GCB, JP, DL, TD , was a British Liberal Party politician, Governor of Victoria and founder of The Naval Annual.-Background and education:...
  
  
• Breiman, Leo
  Leo Breiman
  Leo Breiman was a distinguished statistician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, and was a member of the United States National Academy of Science....
  
  
• Breslow, Norman
  Norman Breslow
  Norman E. Breslow is an American statistician and medical researcher.He and co-author Nicholas Day developed and popularized the use of case-control matched sample research designs, in the two-volume work Statistical Methods in Cancer Research.-References:* 1980, Statistical Methods in Cancer...
  
  
• Brooks, Steve
  Steve Brooks (statistician)
  Stephen Peter "Steve" Brooks is Executive Director of Select Statistical Services Ltd, a statistical research consultancy company based in Exeter, and former professor of statistics at the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge....
  
  
• Brown, Lawrence D.
  Lawrence D. Brown
  Lawrence D. Brown is Miers Busch Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated at the California Institute of Technology and Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1964...
  
  
• Burgess, Warren Randolph
  Warren Randolph Burgess
  Warren Randolph Burgess was an American banker and diplomat who served as ambassador to NATO from 1957 to 1961....
  
  
• Buzek, Józef
  Józef Buzek
  Józef Buzek was a Polish lawyer, economist, statistician and politician from the region of Cieszyn Silesia....
  
  

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• Cai, T. Tony
  T. Tony Cai
  T. Tony Cai , is a Chinese statistician. He is the current Dorothy Silberberg Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania...
  
  
• Caird, James
• Caldwell, John
  John Caldwell (demographer)
  John Charles "Jack" Caldwell AO is a leading demographer, particularly in the fields of fertility transition and health transition. He has researched extensively in Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia since 1959...
  
  
• Cam, Lucien Le
  Lucien le Cam
  Lucien Marie Le Cam was a mathematician and statistician. He obtained a Ph.D. in 1952 at the University of California, Berkeley, was appointed Assistant Professor in 1953 and continued working there beyond his retirement in 1991 until his death.Le Cam was the major figure during the period 1950...
  
   (1924–2000)
• Campion, Harry
  Harry Campion
  Sir Harry Campion, KCB, CBE was a British statistician and the first director of what was the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom. He was also first director of the United Nations Statistical Office...
  
  
• Carver, Harry C.
  Harry C. Carver
  Harry Clyde Carver was an American mathematician and academic, primarily associated with the University of Michigan. He was a major influence in the development of mathematical statistics as an academic discipline....
  
  
• Castles, Ian
  Ian Castles
  Ian Castles, AO OBE was Secretary of the Australian Government Department of Finance , the Australian Statistician , and a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University, Canberra.Castles was born in Kyneton, Victoria and educated at...
  
  
• Chakrabarti, M. C.
  M. C. Chakrabarti
  Mukund Chand Chakrabarti a statistician from Bengal of the British India was the founder head of the department of statistics, University of Mumbai India. He nurtured the department from its birth in 1948 till he died in 1972. The department of mathematics at University of Mumbai was established...
  
  
• Chalmers, George
  George Chalmers
  George Chalmers was a Scottish antiquarian and political writer.-Biography:Chalmers was born at Fochabers, Moray, in 1742. His father, James Chalmers, was a grandson of George Chalmers of Pittensear, a small estate in the parish of Lhanbryde, now St Andrews-Lhanbryde, in Moray, owned by the family...
  
   (1742–1825)
• John M. Chambers
• Champernowne, D. G.
  D. G. Champernowne
  David Gawen Champernowne was an English economist and mathematician.After academic work at Cambridge and the London School of Economics, he worked at the London School of Economics and Cambridge University...
  
   (1912–2000)
• Charles, Enid
  Enid Charles
  Enid Charles, Ph.D. was a socialist, feminist and statistician who was a pioneer in the fields of demography and population statistics....
  
   (1894–1972)
• Charlier, Carl
  Carl Charlier
  Carl Vilhelm Ludwig Charlier was a Swedish astronomer.He received his Ph.D. from Uppsala University in 1887, later worked there and at the Stockholm Observatory and was Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at Lund University from 1897.He made extensive statistical studies of the...
  
   (1862–1934)
• Chebyshev, Pafnuty
  Pafnuty Chebyshev
  Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev was a Russian mathematician. His name can be alternatively transliterated as Chebychev, Chebysheff, Chebyshov, Tschebyshev, Tchebycheff, or Tschebyscheff .-Early years:One of nine children, Chebyshev was born in the village of Okatovo in the district of Borovsk,...
  
   (1821–1894)
• Chen, Louis Hsiao Yun
  Louis Chen Hsiao Yun
  Louis Chen Hsiao Yun is Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor of mathematics at the National University of Singapore.Yun earned his BSc from University of Singapore in 1964 and completed his MSc as well as PhD at Stanford University in 1969 and 1971 respectively. In 1972, he joined the Mathematics...
  
  
• Chernoff, Herman
  Herman Chernoff
  Herman Chernoff is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist formerly a professor at MIT and currently working at Harvard University.-Education:* Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, 1948. Brown University....
  
   (1923–)
• Chervonenkis, Alexey
  Alexey Chervonenkis
  Alexey Jakovlevich Chervonenkis is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, and, with Vladimir Vapnik, was one of the main developers of the Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, also known as the "fundamental theory of learning" an important part of computational learning theory. As of September 2007, Dr...
  
   (1938–)
• Chow, Yuan-Shih
  Yuan-Shih Chow
  Yuan-Shih Chow , also known as Y.S.Chow or Zhou Yuanshen, is a Chinese American probabilist. Currently he is Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, USA....
  
  
• Chuprov, Alexander Alexandrovich
  Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov
  Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov Russian statistician who worked on mathematical statistics, sample survey theory and demography....
  
   (1874–1926)
• Clark, Colin
  Colin Clark
  Colin Grant Clark was a British and Australian economist and statistician who worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia. He pioneered the use of the gross national product as the basis for studying national economies.-Biography:Colin Clark was born in London in 1905 and was educated at the...
  
   (1905–1989)
• Clarke, Richard W. B.
  Richard W. B. Clarke
  Sir Richard William Barnes Clarke, KCB, OBE was a British civil servant. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, London and Clare College, Cambridge; he was sixth wrangler in 1931...
  
   (1910–1975)
• Clayton, David
  David Clayton
  David George Clayton, born 13 June 1944, is a distinguished British statistician and epidemiologist. He is titular Professor of Biostatistics in the University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Principal Research Fellow in the Diabetes and Inflammation...
  
  
• Coale, Ansley J.
  Ansley J. Coale
  Ansley Johnson Coale , was one of America's foremost demographers. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, he earned his B.A. in 1939, his M.A. in 1941, and his Ph.D. in 1947, all at Princeton University...
  
  
• Coats, Robert H.
  Robert H. Coats
  Robert Hamilton Coats was Canada's first Dominion Statistician.He was born in Clinton, Huron County, Ontario in 1874, the son of Charles Coats, who came to Canada from Scotland. In 1896, Coats received a B.A. from the University College in Toronto...
  
   (1874–1960)
• Cochran, William Gemmell
  William Gemmell Cochran
  William Gemmell Cochran was a prominent statistician; he was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States....
  
   (1909–1980)
• Cockfield, Arthur
• Coghlan, Timothy Augustine
  Timothy Augustine Coghlan
  Sir Timothy Augustine Coghlan KCMG was an Australian statistician, holding the post of New South Wales government statistician for 19 years.-Early life:...
  
   (1856–1926)
• Cohen, Jacob
• Cohen, Joel E.
  Joel E. Cohen
  Joel E. Cohen is a mathematical biologist. He is currently Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University in New York City and at the Earth Institute of Columbia University, where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the...
  
  
• Coleman, David
  David Coleman (academic)
  Professor David Coleman has been the Professor in Demography at Oxford University since October 2002, and a lecturer since 1980.Between 1985 and 1987 he worked for the British Government, as the Special Adviser to the Home Secretary, and then to the Ministers of Housing and of the Environment...
  
  
• Cook, Len
  Len Cook
  Leonard Warren "Len" Cook, CBE is a professional statistician who was Government Statistician of New Zealand from 1992 to 2000 and National Statistician and Director of the Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom, and Registrar General for England and Wales from 2000 to...
  
   (1949–)
• Cordeiro, Gauss Moutinho
  Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro
  Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro is a Brazilian engineer, mathematician and statistician of international recognition who has madesignificant contributions to the theory of statistical inference,...
  
   (1952–)
• Cornfield, Jerome
  Jerome Cornfield
  Jerome Cornfield was a US statistician. He is best known for his work in biostatistics, but his early work was in economic statistics and he also contributed to the theory of Bayesian inference. He also played a role in the early development of input-output analysis and linear programming.He was...
  
  
• Courtney, Leonard
  Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith
  Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith PC was a British politician, academic and man of letters...
  
  
• Cover, Thomas M.
  Thomas M. Cover
  Thomas M. Cover is Professor jointly in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University...
  
  
• Cox, David
  David Cox (statistician)
  Sir David Roxbee Cox FRS is a prominent British statistician.-Early years:Cox studied mathematics at St. John's College, Cambridge and obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds in 1949, advised by Henry Daniels and Bernard Welch.-Career:He was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft...
  
   (1924–)
• Cox, Gertrude Mary
  Gertrude Mary Cox
  Gertrude Mary Cox was an influential American statistician and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University. She was later appointed director of both the Institute of Statistics of the Consolidated University of North Carolina and the Statistics Research...
  
   (1900–1978)
• Cox, Richard Threlkeld
  Richard Threlkeld Cox
  Richard Threlkeld Cox was a professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University, known for Cox's theorem relating to the foundations of probability....
  
   (1898–1991)
• Cramér, Harald
  Harald Cramér
  Harald Cramér was a Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probabilistic number theory. He was once described by John Kingman as "one of the giants of statistical theory".-Early life:Harald Cramér was born in Stockholm, Sweden on September...
  
   (Sweden, 1893–1985)
• Crome, August Friedrich Wilhelm
  August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome
  August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome was a German economist and statistician, known particularly for his Producten-Karte von Europa , one of the first uses of cartograms.- Publications :...
  
  
• Crosby, James
• Cudmore, Sedley
  Sedley Cudmore
  Sedley Anthony Cudmore, B.A., M.A. , was a Canadian economist, academic, civil servant and Canada's second Dominion Statistician.-Early years:Cudmore was born in County Cork, Ireland...
  
  
• Cunliffe, Stella
  Stella Cunliffe
  Stella Vivian Cunliffe MBE was a British statistician.She was educated at Parsons Mead, Ashtead and the London School of Economics where she gained a BSc .- Career :...
  
  
• Czekanowski, Jan
  Jan Czekanowski
  Jan Czekanowski was a Polish anthropologist, statistician and linguist. Czekanowski is known for having played an important role in saving the Polish-Lithuanian branch of the Karaim people from Holocaust extermination...
  
  

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• Daniels, Henry
  Henry Daniels
  Henry Ellis Daniels FRS was a British statistician. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society , and was awarded its Guy Medal in Gold in 1984, following a Silver medal in 1947. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1980...
  
  
• Dantzig, David van
  David van Dantzig
  David van Dantzig was a Dutch mathematician, well known for the construction in topology of the dyadic solenoid....
  
  
• Dantzig, George
  George Dantzig
  George Bernard Dantzig was an American mathematical scientist who made important contributions to operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics....
  
  
• Darwin, John
  John Darwin (statistician)
  John Haddrick Darwin was Government Statistician of New Zealand from 1980 to 1984 and a member of the 1985–1986 Royal Commission on the Electoral System which recommended MMP. He was awarded Honorary Life Membership of the New Zealand Statistical Association in 2005.-Early life:He was born...
  
  
• David, Florence Nightingale
  Florence Nightingale David
  Florence Nightingale David, also known as F. N. David was an English statistician, born in Ivington, Herefordshire, England...
  
  
• Davies, Griffith
  Griffith Davies
  Griffith Davies was a noted actuary.Davies, son of Owen Davies, farmer and quarryman , was born at the foot of Cilgwyn mountain, in the parish of Llandwrog, Carnarvon, on 28 Dec. 1788. He was taught to read and spell at a Welsh Sunday school. At the age of seven he commenced learning English at a...
  
  
• Davis, Kingsley
  Kingsley Davis
  Kingsley Davis , identified by the American Philosophical Society as one of the most outstanding social scientists of the twentieth century, was a Hoover Institution senior research fellow and internationally recognized American sociologist and demographer...
  
  
• Dawid, Philip
  Philip Dawid
  Alexander Philip Dawid is Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge...
  
   (1946–)
• Daykin, Christopher
  Christopher Daykin
  Christopher Daykin CB is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and was the Government Actuary for the United Kingdom from 1989 to 2007....
  
  
• DeGroot, Morris H.
  Morris H. DeGroot
  -Biography:Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, DeGroot graduated from Roosevelt University and earned master's and doctor's degrees from the University of Chicago. DeGroot joined Carnegie Mellon in 1957 and became a University Professor, the school's highest faculty position.He wrote three books,...
  
  
• Deming, W. Edwards
  W. Edwards Deming
  William Edwards Deming was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer and consultant. He is perhaps best known for his work in Japan...
  
   (1900–1993)
• Dempster, Arthur P.
  Arthur P. Dempster
  Arthur Pentland Dempster is a Professor Emeritus in the Harvard University Department of Statistics. He was one of four faculty when the department was founded in 1957.He was a Putnam Fellow in 1951. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1956...
  
  
• Desrosières, Alain
  Alain Desrosières
  Alain Desrosières is a statistician at the INSEE and a sociologist and historian of science at the EHESS , well-known for his work in the history of statistics. He is the author of .-External links:...
  
  
• Dewey, Davis Rich
  Davis Rich Dewey
  Davis Rich Dewey, Ph. D. was an American economist and statistician.He was born at Burlington, Vermont, on 7 April 1858. Like his younger brother, John Dewey, he was educated at the University of Vermont and Johns Hopkins University. He later became professor of economics and statistics at the...
  
  
• Diaconis, Persi
  Persi Diaconis
  Persi Warren Diaconis is an American mathematician and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University....
  
   (1945–)
• Dilke, Sir Charles
  Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet PC was an English Liberal and reformist politician. Touted as a future prime minister, his aspirations to higher political office were effectively terminated in 1885, after a notorious and well-publicised divorce case.-Background and education:Dilke was the...
  
  
• Dodge, Harold F.
  Harold F. Dodge
  Harold French Dodge was one of the principal architects of the science of statistical quality control...
  
  
• Dodson, James
  James Dodson
  James Dodson FRS was a British mathematician, actuary and innovator in the insurance industry.-Life:Matthew Maty, in his Mémoire sur la vie et sur les écrits de M. A. de Moivre, wrote that Dodson was a pupil of Abraham de Moivre. He worked as an accountant and teacher...
  
  
• Doll, Sir Richard
  Richard Doll
  Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems...
  
   (1912–2005)
• Donnelly, Peter
  Peter Donnelly
  Peter Donnelly, FRS is an Australian mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford. He is a specialist in applied probability and has made contributions to coalescent theory...
  
  
• Doob, Joseph Leo
  Joseph Leo Doob
  Joseph Leo Doob was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory.The theory of martingales was developed by Doob.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Dublin, Louis Israel
  Louis Israel Dublin
  Louis Israel Dublin was a Jewish American statistician. As vice president and statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Dublin promoted progressive and socially useful insurance underwriting policies...
  
  
• Duckworth, Frank
  Frank Duckworth
  Frank Carter Duckworth, MBE is a retired English statistician, one of the two statisticians who developed the Duckworth–Lewis method of resetting targets in interrupted one-day cricket matches. He studied physics and earned a PhD in metallurgy at the University of Liverpool...
  
  
• Dudley, Richard M.
  Richard M. Dudley
  Richard Mansfield Dudley is Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD at Princeton University in 1962 under the supervision of Edward Nelson and Gilbert Hunt. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1958....
  
  
• Duncan, David F.
  David F. Duncan
  David F. Duncan, Dr. P.H. was born in Kansas City, Missouri on June 26, 1947. He is President of Duncan & Associates, a firm providing consultation on research design and data collection for behavioral and policy studies. He is also Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health...
  
  
• Duncan, Otis Dudley
  Otis Dudley Duncan
  Otis Dudley Duncan was "the most important quantitative sociologist in the world in the latter half of the 20th century", according to sociologist Leo Goodman...
  
  
• Dunn, Halbert L.
  Halbert L. Dunn
  Halbert L. Dunn, M.D. was the leading figure in establishing a national vital statistics system in the United States and is known as the "father of the wellness movement".-Early life:...
  
  
• Dunnell, Karen
  Karen Dunnell
  Dame Karen Hope Dunnell, DCB was National Statistician and Chief Executive of the Office for National Statistics of the United Kingdom and head of the Government Statistical Service from 1 September 2005 until retiring on 28 August 2009...
  
   (1946–)
• Dunnett, Charles
  Charles Dunnett
  Charles W. "Charlie" Dunnett was a Statistical Society of Canada 1986 Gold Medalist winner and Professor Emeritus of the Departments of Mathematics, Statistics, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics of McMaster University. Two of his papers are listed among the top 25 most cited papers in...
  
  
• Durbin, James
  James Durbin
  James Durbin is a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation.He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge where his contemporaries included David Cox and Denis Sargan...
  
  
• Dvoretzky, Aryeh
  Aryeh Dvoretzky
  Aryeh Dvoretzky was a Russian-born Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics. He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability.-Biography:...
  
  

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• Easton, Brian
  Brian Easton
  Brian Easton is an economist from New Zealand. He has been economics columnist for the New Zealand Listener magazine for more than 20 years, giving him a high public profile. He has held a number of university teaching posts but currently works as an independent scholar...
  
  
• Eckler, A. Ross
  A. Ross Eckler
  Albert Ross Eckler served as Deputy Director of the United States Census Bureau from 1949 to 1965, and its Director from 1965 until 1969. He was the first career employee ever to become director of the agency....
  
   (1901–1991)
• Eckler, A. Ross Jr.
  A. Ross Eckler, Jr.
  Albert Ross Eckler, Jr. is a logologist and statistician, the son of statistician A. Ross Eckler. He received a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University....
  
   (1927–)
• Eden, Sir Frederick (1766–1809)
• Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro
  Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
  Francis Ysidro Edgeworth FBA was an Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s...
  
   (1845–1926)
• Edwards, A. W. F.
  A. W. F. Edwards
  Anthony William Fairbank Edwards is a British statistician, geneticist, and evolutionary biologist, sometimes called Fisher's Edwards. He is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and retired Professor of Biometry at the University of Cambridge, and holds both the ScD and LittD degrees. A...
  
   (1935–)
• Efron, Bradley
  Bradley Efron
  Bradley Efron is an American statistician best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in the field of statistics and virtually every area of statistical application...
  
  
• Eisenhart, Churchill
  Churchill Eisenhart
  Dr. Churchill Eisenhart was a United States mathematician. He was Chief of the Statistical Engineering Laboratory , Applied Mathematics Division of the National Bureau of Standards ....
  
   (1913–1994)
• Elderton, Ethel M.
  Ethel M. Elderton
  Ethel Mary Elderton was a eugenics researcher who worked with Francis Galton and Karl Pearson. In 1905 she resigned her teaching post to become Galton's assistant. Subsequently she became Galton Scholar and Fellow and Assistant Professor at University College London....
  
  
• Elderton, William Palin
  William Palin Elderton
  Sir William Palin Elderton KBE PhD was a British actuary who served as president of the Institute of Actuaries . Elderton also had a very long association with the statistical journal Biometrika...
  
  
• Elston, Robert C.
  Robert C. Elston
  Dr. Robert C. Elston is a distinguished statistical geneticist and professor at Case Western Reserve University. He was born in London, England. He is one of the eponyms of the Elston–Stewart algorithm.-External links:...
  
  
• Engel, Ernst
  Ernst Engel
  Ernst Engel was a German statistician and economist, famous for the Engel curve and the Engel's law.Ernst was born in Dresden in 1821...
  
   (1821–1896)
• Engle, Robert F.
  Robert F. Engle
  Robert Fry Engle III is an American economist and the winner of the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, sharing the award with Clive Granger, "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility ".-Biography:Engle was born in Syracuse, New York and went on to...
  
  
• Erlang, A. K.
  Agner Krarup Erlang
  Agner Krarup Erlang was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory....
  
   (1878–1929)
• Erritt, John
  John Erritt
  Michael John Mackey Erritt, CB was the Deputy Director of the British Government Statistical Service.- Education :* St Andrew's College, Dublin* Prince of Wales School, Nairobi...
  
  
• Ezekiel, Mordecai
  Mordecai Ezekiel
  Mordecai Joseph Brill Ezekiel was an American agrarian economist who worked for the United States government and the United Nations for a number of years....
  
  

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• Fabri, Johann Ernst
  Johann Ernst Fabri
  Johann Ernst Fabri was a German geographer and statistician.In 1776 he began his studies of theology at the University of Halle, but his focus soon turned to geography and history...
  
  
• Fallati, Johannes
  Johannes Fallati
  Johannes Fallati was a German statistician and economist. He was born at Hamburg, where his father, originally of Rovigo , was a merchant....
  
  
• Fan, Jianqing
  Jianqing Fan
  Jianqing Fan , is a Chinese statistician. He is the current Frederick L. Moore '18 Professor of Finance, and Professor of Statistics at the Princeton University...
  
  
• Farr, William
  William Farr
  William Farr was a nineteenth-century British epidemiologist, regarded as one of the founders of medical statistics.-Early life:He was born in Kenley, Shropshire, England to poor parents...
  
   (1807–1883)
• Farrer, Thomas
  Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer
  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer was an English civil servant and statistician.Farrer was the son of Thomas Farrer, a solicitor in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Born in London, he was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1840...
  
  
• Fechner, Gustav
  Gustav Fechner
  Gustav Theodor Fechner , was a German experimental psychologist. An early pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics, he inspired many 20th century scientists and philosophers...
  
   (1801–1887)
• Fellegi, Ivan
  Ivan Fellegi
  Ivan Peter Fellegi, OC is a Hungarian-Canadian statistician and was the Chief Statistician of Canada from 1985 to 2008.Born in Szeged, Hungary, Ivan Fellegi was in his third year of studying mathematics at the Eötvös Loránd University, when the Hungarian uprising was crushed in 1956...
  
   (1935–)
• Feller, William
  William Feller
  William Feller born Vilibald Srećko Feller , was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Fernique, Xavier
  Xavier Fernique
  Xavier Fernique is a mathematician, noted mostly for his contributions to the theory of stochastic processes. Fernique's theorem, a result on the integrability of Gaussian measures, is named after him.-External links:...
  
  
• Fienberg, Stephen
  Stephen Fienberg
  Stephen Elliott Fienberg is the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University....
  
  
• Finetti, Bruno de
  Bruno de Finetti
  Bruno de Finetti was an Italian probabilist, statistician and actuary, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability...
  
   (1906–1985)
• Finlaison, John
  John Finlaison (Finlayson)
  John Finlaison was a Scottish civil servant, government actuary and the first president of the Institute of Actuaries.John was born under the name Finlayson, however, was better known under the name of Finlaison.-Early life:...
  
  
• Finney, D. J.
  D. J. Finney
  David John Finney CBE is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh. He was Director of the Agricultural Research Council's Unit of Statistics from 1954 to 1984 and a former President of the Royal Statistical Society and of the Biometric Society...
  
  
• Fisher, Irving
  Irving Fisher
  Irving Fisher was an American economist, inventor, and health campaigner, and one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation often regarded as belonging instead to the Post-Keynesian school.Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and...
  
   (1867–1947)
• Fisher, Sir Ronald A.
  Ronald Fisher
  Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and geneticist. Among other things, Fisher is well known for his contributions to statistics by creating Fisher's exact test and Fisher's equation...
  
   (1890–1962)
• Fleetwood, William
  William Fleetwood
  William Fleetwood was an English preacher, Bishop of St Asaph and Bishop of Ely, remembered by economists and statisticians for constructing a price index in his Chronicon Preciosum of 1707.-Life:...
  
   (1656–1723)
• Fleiss, Joseph L.
• Flux, A. William
  A. William Flux
  Sir Alfred William Flux CB was a British economist and statistician.Flux was born in the Landport district of Portsmouth in 1867, the son of a cement maker. He attended Portsmouth Grammar School then studied mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge where he was a Senior Wrangler in 1887...
  
  
• Foot, David
• Fowler, Henry
  Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton
  Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton PC , was a British solicitor and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1908 when he was raised to the peerage...
  
  
• Fox, John
  John Fox (statistician)
  John Fox is a British statistician, who has worked in both the public service and academia.He was born on 25 April 1946, the son of Fred Frank Fox OBE. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, University College London and Imperial College London...
  
   (1945–)
• Frankel, Lester
  Lester Frankel
  Lester Robert Frankel was a prominent American survey statistician. He studied under Harold Hotelling, receiving a master's degree from Columbia University in 1936, and served as the 70th president of the American Statistical Association in 1975...
  
  
• Franscini, Stefano
  Stefano Franscini
  Stefano Franscini was a Swiss politician and statistician. He was one of the initial members of the Swiss Federal Council elected in 1848 and Switzerland's first native Italian speaking federal councillor. Franscini was affiliated to the Liberal Radical Party of Switzerland. During his office...
  
  
• Freedman, David A.
  David A. Freedman (statistician)
  David A. Freedman was Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a distinguished mathematical statistician whose wide-ranging research included the analysis of martingale inequalities, Markov processes, de Finetti's theorem, consistency of Bayes estimators, sampling,...
  
  
• Freedman, Ronald
  Ronald Freedman
  Dr. Ronald Freedman was an international demographer and founder of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. He led pioneering survey research on fertility in Asia.Freedman was the recipient of many honors and awards over his career...
  
  
• Friedman, Milton
  Milton Friedman
  Milton Friedman was an American economist, statistician, academic, and author who taught at the University of Chicago for more than three decades...
  
  
• Frigessi, Arnoldo di Rattalma
  Arnoldo Frigessi
  Arnoldo Frigessi di Rattalma is an Italian statistician based in Norway, where he is a professor at the Department of Biostatistics with the Institute of Basic Medical Research at the University of Oslo...
  
   (1959–)

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• Gallant, A. Ronald
  A. Ronald Gallant
  A. Ronald "Ron" Gallant is a leading American econometrician. He is currently the Hanes Corporation Foundation Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, with secondary appointment in the Department of Economics, Duke University, in the United States.He is...
  
  
• Gallup, George
  George Gallup
  George Horace Gallup was an American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll, a successful statistical method of survey sampling for measuring public opinion.-Biography:...
  
   (1901–1984)
• Galton, Francis
  Francis Galton
  Sir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...
  
   (1822–1911)
• Gauquelin, Michel
  Michel Gauquelin
  Michel Gauquelin was a French psychologist and statistician. Along with his first wife Françoise Schneider-Gauquelin , he conducted statistical research in an attempt to develop a scientific basis for astrology.-Early interest:Although he was highly critical of certain areas of the art, Gauquelin...
  
  
• Geary, Roy C.
  Roy C. Geary
  Dr. Robert Charles Geary was an Irish statistician and founder of both the Central Statistics Office and the Economic and Social Research Institute. He held degrees from University College Dublin and the Sorbonne. He lectured in mathematics at University College Southampton and in applied...
  
  
• Geisser, Seymour
  Seymour Geisser
  Seymour Geisser was a statistician noted for emphasizing the role of prediction in statistical inference – see predictive inference. In his book , he held that conventional statistical inference about unobservable population parameters amounts to inference about things that do not exist,...
  
   (1929–2004)
• Geman, Donald
  Donald Geman
  Donald Geman is an American statistician and a leading researcher in the realm of machine learning and pattern recognition...
  
   (1943–)
• Ghosh, Jayanta Kumar
• Ghysels, Eric
  Eric Ghysels
  Eric Ghysels is an economist with particular interest in finance and time series econometrics who works in the field of financial econometrics and is currently the Edward M...
  
  
• Giblin, Lyndhurst
  Lyndhurst Giblin
  Professor Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin DSO MC was an Australian statistician and economist. He led a colourful life; he was an unsuccessful gold prospector, played rugby union for England, and fought in the First World War....
  
   (1872–1951)
• Giffen, Robert
  Robert Giffen
  Sir Robert Giffen KCB , was a Scottish statistician and economist. He was born at Strathaven, Lanarkshire.He entered a solicitor's office in Glasgow, and while in that city attended courses at the university. He drifted into journalism, and after working for the Stirling Journal he went to London...
  
   (1910–)
• Gifford, Dale L.
  Dale L. Gifford
  Dale L. Gifford was Hewitt Associates Chief Executive Officer from 1992 and Chairman of the Board of Directors between March 2002 and his retirement in October 2006. Prior to those roles, Gifford managed Hewitt's Southwest and Midwest U.S. Market Groups, international operations, and their...
  
  
• Gill, Richard D.
• Gini, Corrado
  Corrado Gini
  Corrado Gini was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. Gini was also a leading fascist theorist and ideologue who wrote The Scientific Basis of Fascism in 1927...
  
   (1884–1965)
• Gladstone, William
  William Ewart Gladstone
  William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...
  
  
• Glass, David
  David Glass (sociologist)
  David Glass was an eminent English sociologist. One of the few sociologists elected to the Royal Society.He is also one of the very few people to be elected both FBA and FRS....
  
  
• Glass, Gene V.
  Gene V. Glass
  Gene V Glass is an American statistician and researcher working in educational psychology and the social sciences. He coined the term "meta-analysis" and illustrated its use in 1976 while a faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder...
  
   (1940–)
• Goldman, Samuel
  Samuel Goldman
  Sir Samuel Goldman KCB was Second Permanent Secretary at Her Majesty's Treasury and later an international banker....
  
  
• Goldstein, Harvey
  Harvey Goldstein
  Harvey Goldstein is a British statistician known for his contributions to multilevel modelling methodology and software, and for applying this to educational assessment and league tables....
  
  
• Gompertz, Benjamin
  Benjamin Gompertz
  Benjamin Gompertz was a British self educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society...
  
   (1779–1865)
• Good, I. J.
  I. J. Good
  Irving John Good was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After World War II, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester...
  
   (1916–2009)
• Good, Phillip
  Phillip Good
  Phillip I. Good is a Canadian-American mathematical statistician. He was educated at McGill University and the University of California at Berkeley....
  
  (1937–)
• Goodnight, James
  James Goodnight
  James "Jim" Goodnight is the CEO of SAS Instituteand is generally recognized as the wealthiest man in the state of North Carolina and one of the wealthiest in the world.-Biography:...
  
  
• Goschen, George
• Gosset, William Sealy
  William Sealy Gosset
  William Sealy Gosset is famous as a statistician, best known by his pen name Student and for his work on Student's t-distribution....
  
   (known as "Student") (1876–1937)
• Granger, Clive
  Clive Granger
  Sir Clive William John Granger was a British economist, who taught in Britain at the University of Nottingham and in the U.S.A. at the University of California, San Diego. In 2003, Granger was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, in recognition that he and his co-winner, Robert F...
  
  
• Graunt, John
  John Graunt
  John Graunt was one of the first demographers, though by profession he was a haberdasher. Born in London, the eldest of seven or eight children of Henry and Mary Graunt. His father was a draper who had moved to London from Hampshire...
  
   (1620–1674)
• Gray, Mary W.
  Mary W. Gray
  Mary Lee Wheat Gray is an American mathematician. She is the author of books and papers in the fields of mathematics, mathematics education, computer science, applied statistics, economic equity, discrimination law, and academic freedom....
  
  
• Grebenik, Eugene
  Eugene Grebenik
  Eugene Grebenik CB, known as "Grebby" was a central figure in the development of demography in Britain and the first director of the British Civil Service College.- Early life :...
  
  
• Green, Peter
  Peter Green (statistician)
  Peter Green FRS is a British Bayesian statistician. He holds a chair in statistics at Bristol University. He is distinguished for his contributions to computational statistics, in particular his contributions to spatial statistics and semi-parametric regression models and also his development of...
  
  
• Greenland, Sander
  Sander Greenland
  Sander Greenland is a biostatistician and epidemiologist known for his contributions to meta-analysis, Bayesian inference and causal inference, among other topics...
  
  
• Greenwood, Major
  Major Greenwood
  Major Greenwood FRS was an English epidemiologist and statistician.Major Greenwood junior was born in Shoreditch in London's East End, the only child of a doctor in general practice there...
  
   (1880–1949)
• Griffiths, Robert
  Robert Griffiths (mathematician)
  Robert Charles Griffiths, FRS is an Australian mathematician and statistician known for his work in mathematical population genetics. He is Professor of Mathematical Genetics in the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor at Lady Margaret Hall....
  
  
• Griliches, Zvi
  Zvi Griliches
  Hirsh Zvi Griliches was an economist at Harvard University. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in an assimilated Jewish family that spoke Russian at home. During World War II he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp...
  
  
• Guerry, André-Michel
  André-Michel Guerry
  André-Michel Guerry was a French lawyer and amateur statistician. Together with Adolphe Quetelet he may be regarded as the founder of moral statistics which led to the development of criminology, sociology and ultimately, modern social science.- Early life and education :Guerry was born in Tours,...
  
  
• Gumbel, Emil Julius
  Emil Julius Gumbel
  Emil Julius Gumbel was a Jewish mathematician and political writer.Born in Munich, he graduated from the University of Munich shortly before the outbreak of the First World War...
  
   (1891–1966)
• Guttman, Louis
• Guy, William
  William Guy
  William Augustus Guy was a British physician and medical statistician.-Life:He was born in Chichester and educated at Christ's Hospital and Guy's Hospital; he then studied at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Paris before getting a Bachelor of Medicine degree from the University...
  
  
• Gy, Pierre
  Pierre Gy
  Pierre Maurice Gy is a chemist and statistician. Born in Paris, France, to Felix and Clemence, Gy graduated in chemical engineering from ESPCI ParisTech in 1946....
  
   (1924–)

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• Haberman, Steven
  Steven Haberman
  Steven Haberman is the professor of actuarial science and a senior administrator at City University, London.He was educated at Ilford County High School, Trinity College, Cambridge and City University .- Career :...
  
   (1951–)
• Hájek, Jaroslav
  Jaroslav Hájek
  Jaroslav Hájek was a Czech mathematician, considered to be one of the most important figures in theoretical statistics.-Further reading:*General Probability & Mathematical Statistics - Collected Works of Jaroslav Hajek...
  
   (1926–1974)
• Hajnal, John
  John Hajnal
  John Hajnal, FBA , born John Hajnal-Kónyi, was a Hungarian-British academic in the fields of mathematics and economics .-Life:...
  
  
• Hald, Anders
  Anders Hald
  Anders Hald was a Danish statistician who made contributions to the history of statistics.He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1960 to 1982.- Bibliography :...
  
   (1913–)
• Hall, Peter Gavin
• Halmos, Paul
  Paul Halmos
  Paul Richard Halmos was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis . He was also recognized as a great mathematical expositor.-Career:Halmos obtained his B.A...
  
  
• Hamilton, Lord George
  Lord George Hamilton
  Lord George Francis Hamilton GCSI, PC, JP was a British Conservative Party politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.-Background:...
  
  
• Hardin, Garrett
  Garrett Hardin
  Garrett James Hardin was an American ecologist who warned of the dangers of overpopulation and whose concept of the tragedy of the commons brought attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment"...
  
  
• Harris, Ted
  Ted Harris (mathematician)
  Theodore E. Harris was anAmerican mathematician known for his research on stochastic processes, including such areas as general state-space Markov chains , the theory of branching...
  
   (1919–2006)
• Hartley, Herman Otto
  Herman Otto Hartley
  H. O. Hartley , born Herman Otto Hirschfeld but commonly called HOH, was a German-American statistician. He developed Hartley's test for equality of variances . In 1967 he and J.N.K. Rao published a maximum likelihood method for finding variance components in mixed models...
  
  
• Hayter, Henry Heylyn
  Henry Heylyn Hayter
  Henry Heylyn Hayter CMG was an English-born Australian statisticianHayter was the son of Henry Hayter and his wife Eliza Jane née Heylyn...
  
  
• Healy, Michael
  Michael Healy (statistician)
  Michael John Romer Healy is a British statistician known for his contributions to statistical computing, auxology, laboratory statistics and quality control, and methods for analysing longitudinal data, among other areas. He was professor of medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and...
  
  
• Hedges, Larry V.
  Larry V. Hedges
  Larry V. Hedges is a researcher in statistical methods for meta-analysis and evaluation of education policy. He is Professor of Statistics and Social Policy, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University. Previously, he was the Stella M...
  
  
• Hein, Jotun
  Jotun Hein
  Jotun Piet Hein is Professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Statistics of the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow of University College, Oxford...
  
   (1956–)
• Helmert, Friedrich Robert
  Friedrich Robert Helmert
  Friedrich Robert Helmert was a German geodesist and an important writer on the theory of errors.Helmert was born in Freiberg, Kingdom of Saxony. After schooling in Freiberg and Dresden, he entered the Polytechnische Schule, now Technische Universität, in Dresden to study engineering science in 1859...
  
   (1843–1917)
• Henderson, Charles Roy
  Charles Roy Henderson
  Charles Roy Henderson was a statistician and a pioneer in animal breeding — the application of quantitative methods for the genetic evaluation of domestic livestock. He developed mixed model equations to obtain best linear unbiased predictions of breeding values and, in general, any random effect...
  
   (1911–1989)
• Heyde, Chris
  Chris Heyde
  Christopher Charles "Chris" Heyde AM was a prominent Australian statistician who did leading research in probability, stochastic processes and statistics....
  
   (1939–2008)
• Hibbert, Sir Jack
  Jack Hibbert
  Sir Jack Hibbert was a Britishstatistician and director of the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom, 1985-1992. He was made a KCB in 1990.-Background:...
  
   (1932–2005)
• Hickman, James C.
  James C. Hickman
  James C. Hickman was an American actuary. He was internationally publicized for his work in actuarial education as well as being a major contribution in the development of the actuarial profession...
  
  
• Hilbe, Joseph
  Joseph Hilbe
  Joseph Michael Hilbe is a US statistician and philosopher, atwo-time national champion track & field athlete, and Olympic Games official.He is author of several popular texts on statistical modeling, and is founding chair of the ISI...
  
   (1944–)
• Hill, Austin Bradford
  Austin Bradford Hill
  Sir Austin Bradford Hill FRS , English epidemiologist and statistician, pioneered the randomized clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, was the first to demonstrate the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer...
  
   (1897–1991)
• Hill, Joseph Adna
  Joseph Adna Hill
  Joseph Adna Hill was an American statistician, born at Stewartstown, New Hampshire; he graduated from Harvard University in 1885 and from the University of Halle in 1892...
  
  
• Hinkley, David V.
  David V. Hinkley
  David V. Hinkley is a statistician known for his research in statistical models and inference and for his graduate-level books.-Research and graduate textbooks:He earned a PhD from the Imperial College London under the supervision of David R. Cox...
  
  
• Hjort, Nils Lid
  Nils Lid Hjort
  Nils Lid Hjort is a Norwegian statistician, and has been a professor of mathematical statistics at the University of Oslo since 1991...
  
   (1953–)
• Hoeffding, Wassily
  Wassily Hoeffding
  Wassily Hoeffding was an American statistician and probabilist...
  
   (1914–1991)
• Hoem, Jan
  Jan Hoem
  Jan M. Hoem is a distinguished scientist in population studies.He was born in Kristiansund, Norway, studied actuarial science and mathematical statistics in Oslo, and was awarded a Dr.philos. in 1969. He became a lecturer at the University of Oslo and later moved on to found and head the...
  
   (1939–)
• Hollander, Myles
  Myles Hollander
  Myles Hollander is an American academic statistician who has made research contributions to nonparametric methods, biostatistics, and reliability. He is presently Emeritus and Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Florida State University...
  
  
• Hollerith, Herman
  Herman Hollerith
  Herman Hollerith was an American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the founder of one of the companies that later merged and became IBM.-Personal life:Hollerith was born in Buffalo, New...
  
   (1860–1929)
• Holmes, Chris
  Chris Holmes (mathematician)
  Chris Holmes is a British applied mathematician. He is titular Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College. After working in industry he completed his doctorate in Bayesian statistics at Imperial College, London....
  
  
• Holt, Tim
  Tim Holt (statistician)
  David Holt CB is a British statistician who is Professor Emeritus of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton...
  
   (1943–)
• Holtsmark, Gabriel Gabrielsen
  Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark
  Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark was a Norwegian educator, physicist and actuary.-Personal life:He was born in Asker as a son of farmer and mayor Bent Holtsmark and his wife Anne Elisabeth Gabrielsen. He was a brother of Bernt, Torger and Wilhelm Holtsmark...
  
  
• Hogben, Lancelot
  Lancelot Hogben
  Lancelot Thomas Hogben FRS was a versatile British experimental zoologist and medical statistician. He is best known for developing Xenopus laevis as a model organism for biological research in his early career, attacking the eugenics movement in the middle of his career, and popularising books on...
  
   (1895–1975)
• Hooker, Reginald Hawthorn
  Reginald Hawthorn Hooker
  Reginald Hawthorn Hooker English civil servant, statistician and meteorologist. Hooker was a pioneer in the application of correlation analysis to economics and agricultural meteorology.- Biography :...
  
   (1867–1944)
• Hotelling, Harold
  Harold Hotelling
  Harold Hotelling was a mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist.He was Associate Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University from 1927 until 1931, a member of the faculty of Columbia University from 1931 until 1946, and a Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the...
  
   (1895–1973)
• Huff, Darrell
  Darrell Huff
  Darrell Huff was an American writer, and is best known as the author of How to Lie with Statistics , the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth century....
  
   (1913–2001)
• Hunter, Sir William Wilson
  William Wilson Hunter
  Sir William Wilson Hunter KCSI CIE was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service, who later became Vice President of Royal Asiatic Society.-Early life and education:...
  
  (1840–1900)
• Hunter, William
  William Hunter (statistician)
  William Gordon Hunter, or Bill Hunter as he was usually called, was a statistician at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was co-author of the classic book Statistics for Experimenters, and founder of the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement....
  
   (1937–1986)
• Hutchison, Col
  Col Hutchison
  Colin "Col" Hutchison is a veteran statistician, most notably in the Victorian/Australian Football League in the sport of Australian rules football...
  
  
• Huzurbazar, V. S.
  V. S. Huzurbazar
  Vasant Shankar Huzurbazar was an Indian statistician from Kolhapur. Huzurbazar was the founder head of the department of statistics, University of Pune from 1953 to 1976...
  
  

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• Ihaka, Ross
  Ross Ihaka
  Ross Ihaka is an Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Auckland, who is recognized, along with Robert Gentleman, as one of the originators of the R programming language...
  
  
• Iman, Ronald L.
  Ronald L. Iman
  Dr. Ronald L. Iman is an American statistician, currently president of Southwest Technology Consultants in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was previously president of the American Statistical Association. He was one of the developers of the statistical technique known as Latin hypercube...
  
  
• Irwin, Joseph Oscar
  Joseph Oscar Irwin
  Joseph Oscar Irwin British statistician who advanced the use of statistical methods in biological assay and other fields of laboratory medicine. Irwin’s grasp of modern mathematical statistics distinguished him not only from older medical statisticians like Major Greenwood but contemporaries like...
  
   (1898–1982)
• Ishikawa, Kaoru
  Kaoru Ishikawa
  was a Japanese university professor and influential quality management innovator best known in North America for the Ishikawa or cause and effect diagram that is used in the analysis of industrial process.- Biography :...
  
   (1915–1989)
• Isserlis, Leon
  Leon Isserlis
  Leon Isserlis was a Russian-born British statistician known for his work on the exact distribution of sample moments, including Isserlis’ theorem...
  
   (1881–1966)

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• Jacoby, Oswald
  Oswald Jacoby
  Oswald Jacoby was an American contract bridge player and author, considered one of the greatest bridge players of all time. He also excelled at, and wrote about, other games including backgammon, gin rummy, and poker.Born in Brooklyn, he was taught to play whist at the age of six and played his...
  
  
• Jaffrey, Thomas
  Thomas Jaffrey
  Sir Thomas Jaffrey, 1st Baronet was a Scottish actuary and a prominent citizen of Aberdeen.Jaffrey joined the North of Scotland Bank in 1877 and in 1892 was appointed actuary of the Aberdeen Savings Bank, a post he held for 37 years...
  
  
• James, Bill
  Bill James
  George William “Bill” James is a baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics...
  
   (1949–)
• Jaynes, Edwin Thompson
  Edwin Thompson Jaynes
  Edwin Thompson Jaynes was Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis...
  
   (1922–1998)
• Jefferys, William H.
  William H. Jefferys
  William H. Jefferys is an American astronomer. He is a Harlan J. Smith Centennial Professor of Astronomy of astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin, and an adjunct professor of statistics at the University of Vermont....
  
   (1940–)
• Jeffreys, Harold
  Harold Jeffreys
  Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS was a mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. His seminal book Theory of Probability, which first appeared in 1939, played an important role in the revival of the Bayesian view of probability.-Biography:Jeffreys was born in Fatfield, Washington, County...
  
   (1891–1989)
• Jellinek, E. Morton
  E. Morton Jellinek
  Elvin Morton "Bunky" Jellinek , E. Morton Jellinek, or most often, E. M. Jellinek, was a biostatistician, physiologist, and an alcoholism researcher. He was born in New York City and died at the desk of his study at Stanford University on 22 October 1963. He was fluent in nine languages and could...
  
   (1890–1963)
• Jenkins, Gwilym
  Gwilym Jenkins
  Gwilym Meirion Jenkins was a Welsh statistician and systems engineer, born in Gowerton , Swansea, Wales. He is most notable for his pioneering work with George Box on autoregressive moving average models, also called Box-Jenkins models, in time-series analysis.He earned a first class honors degree...
  
   (1933–1982)
• Jevons, William Stanley
  William Stanley Jevons
  William Stanley Jevons was a British economist and logician.Irving Fisher described his book The Theory of Political Economy as beginning the mathematical method in economics. It made the case that economics as a science concerned with quantities is necessarily mathematical...
  
   (1835–1882)
• Jobson, Alexander
  Alexander Jobson
  Brigadier General Alexander Jobson DSO was an Australian Army Brigadier General in World War I.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Johnson, Norman Lloyd
  Norman Lloyd Johnson
  Norman Lloyd Johnson was a professor of statistics and author or editor of several standard reference works in statistics and probability theory.-Education:...
  
   (1917–2004)
• Johnston, Robert Mackenzie
  Robert Mackenzie Johnston
  Robert Mackenzie Johnston was a Scottish-Australian statistician and scientist.Johnston was born near Inverness, Scotland, the son of Lachlan Johnstone, a crofter, and his wife Mary, née Mackenzie. Johnston was educated at the village school where his ability was quickly recognized...
  
  
• Jones, Edward
  Edward Jones (statistician)
  Edward Davis Jones was a U.S. statistician, mostly known for being the "Jones" in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.A graduate of Worcester Academy in Worcester, MA, he co-founded the Dow Jones & Company in 1882 along with Charles Dow and Charles Bergstresser.He was not associated with Edward Jones...
  
  
• Jones-Loyd, Samuel
  Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone
  Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone was a British banker and politician.-Background and education:Loyd was the only son of Reverend Lewis Loyd and Sarah, daughter of John Jones, a Manchester banker...
  
  
• Jordan, Michael I.
  Michael I. Jordan
  Michael I. Jordan is a leading researcher in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Jordan was a prime mover behind popularising Bayesian networks in the machine learning community and is known for pointing out links between machine learning and statistics...
  
  
• Jöreskog, Karl Gustav
• Jouffret, Esprit
  Esprit Jouffret
  Esprit Jouffret was a French artillery officer, insurance actuary and mathematician, author of Traité élémentaire de géométrie à quatre dimensions , a popularization of Henri Poincaré's Science and Hypothesis in which Jouffret described hypercubes and other complex polyhedra in four dimensions and...
  
  
• Juran, Joseph M.
  Joseph M. Juran
  Joseph Moses Juran was a 20th century management consultant who is principally remembered as an evangelist for quality and quality management, writing several influential books on those subjects. He was the brother of Academy Award winner Nathan H...
  
   (1904–)
• Jurin, James
  James Jurin
  James Jurin FRS MA FRCP MD was an English scientist and physician, particularly remembered for his early work in capillary action and in the epidemiology of smallpox vaccination...
  
   (1684–1750)

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• Kac, Mark
  Mark Kac
  Mark Kac was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. Kac completed his Ph.D...
  
  
• Kempthorne, Oscar
  Oscar Kempthorne
  Oscar Kempthorne was a statistician and geneticist known for his research on randomization-analysis and the design of experiments, which had wide influence on research in agriculture, genetics, and other areas of science...
  
  
• Kendall, David George
  David George Kendall
  David George Kendall FRS was an English statistician, who spent much of his academic life in the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. He worked with M. S...
  
   (1918–2007)
• Kendall, Sir Maurice
  Maurice Kendall
  Sir Maurice George Kendall, FBA was a British statistician, widely known for his contribution to statistics. The Kendall tau rank correlation is named after him.-Education and early life:...
  
   (1907–1983)
• Kennedy, Joseph C. G.
  Joseph C. G. Kennedy
  Joseph Camp Griffith Kennedy of Pennsylvania, was a 19th century Whig politician, lawyer and journalist who supervised the United States Census for 1850 and 1860...
  
  
• Khattree, Ravindra
  Ravindra Khattree
  Ravindra Khattree is an Indian born statistician and professor of statistics at Oakland University. His contribution to the Fountain-Khattree-Peddada Theorem in Pitman measure of closeness is one of the important results of his work. Khattree is the coauthor of two books and has coedited two...
  
  
• Khmaladze, Estate V.
  Estate V. Khmaladze
  Estate V. Khmaladze |Georgia]]) is a Georgian statistician. He is best known for his contribution of Khmaladze transformation in statistics.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kiefer, Jack
  Jack Kiefer (mathematician)
  Jack Carl Kiefer was an American statistician.- Biography :Jack Kiefer was born on January 25, 1924, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Carl Jack Kiefer and Marguerite K. Rosenau...
  
  
• Kiær, Anders Nicolai
  Anders Nicolai Kiær
  Anders Nicolai Kiær was a Norwegian statistician who first proposed that a representative sample rather than a complete enumerating survey could and used should be used to collect information about a population....
  
  
• King, Gregory
  Gregory King
  Gregory King was an English genealogist, engraver and statistician.-Life:Gregory King was born at Lichfield, England. His father was a surveyor and landscape gardener. Gregory was a very bright boy and his father used him as an assistant in his surveying work. At 14 Gregory became a clerk to...
  
  
• King, Willford I.
  Willford I. King
  Willford Isbell King was a noted American statistician, economist, and chairman of the Committee for Constitutional Government, Inc....
  
  
• Kingman, John
  John Kingman
  Sir John Frank Charles Kingman, born on 28 August 1939 in Beckenham, Kent, is a British mathematician.He was N. M. Rothschild and Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge from 2001 until 2006, when he was succeeded by Sir...
  
   (1939–)
• Kish, Leslie
  Leslie Kish
  Leslie Kish was an American statistician and survey methodologist of Hungarian descent. He fought in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War....
  
   (1910–2000)
• Knibbs, George Handley
  George Handley Knibbs
  Sir George Handley "The Knibb" Knibbs CMG was an Australian scientist, the first Commonwealth Statistician and the first director of the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry, predecessor to the CSIRO....
  
  
• Kočović, Bogoljub
  Bogoljub Kocovic
  Bogoljub Kočović is a Bosnian jurist and statistician, Yugoslav by ethnic affiliation.Kočović was born in Sarajevo; his father was a Serb and mother French by origin. He obtained a MA in economy at the Roosevelt University in Chicago, and a Ph. D. in law in Paris...
  
  
• Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolaevich
  Andrey Kolmogorov
  Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov was a Soviet mathematician, preeminent in the 20th century, who advanced various scientific fields, among them probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics and computational complexity.-Early life:Kolmogorov was born at Tambov...
  
   (1903–1987)
• Koopman, Bernard
  Bernard Koopman
  Bernard Osgood Koopman was a French-born American mathematician, known for his work in ergodic theory, the foundations of probability, statistical theory and operations research....
  
  
• Krewski, Dan
  Dan Krewski
  Daniel Krewski is an Academic who is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa, where his focus is health risk assessment in the Institute of Population Health.-References:...
  
  
• Krumbein, William C.
  William C. Krumbein
  William Christian Krumbein was a notable geologist, after whom the Krumbein Medal of the International Association for Mathematical Geology was named. This medal was established at the 25th International Geological Congress in Sydney, in 1976...
  
  
• Kruskal, Joseph
  Joseph Kruskal
  Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr. was an American mathematician, statistician, computer scientist and psychometrician. He was a student at the University of Chicago and at Princeton University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1954, nominally under Albert W...
  
   (1929–)
• Kruskal, William
  William Kruskal
  William Henry Kruskal was an American mathematician and statistician. He is best known for having formulated the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance , a widely-used nonparametric statistical method.Kruskal was born in New York City to a successful fur wholesaler...
  
   (1919–2005)
• Krüger, André
  André Krüger
  André Krüger is a German statistician. Krüger has spent over 30 years researching Australian football in an attempt to produce a complete record of all "Socceroos" internationals since 1922...
  
  
• Kuczynski, Robert René
• Kulischer, Eugene M.
  Eugene M. Kulischer
  Eugene M. Kulischer was a Russian American sociologist, an authority on demography, migration, and manpower, and an expert on Russia...
  
  
• Kullback, Solomon
  Solomon Kullback
  Solomon Kullback was an American cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov. He went on to a long and distinguished career at SIS and...
  
   (1907–1994)
• Künsch, Hans-Rudolf
  Hans-Rudolf Künsch
  Hans Rudolf Künsch is a Swiss mathematician and statistician based in Zürich, where he has been a professor with the Seminar für Statistik since 1983 at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule . As of 2007, Künsch is the Chair of ETH Zürich's Department of Mathematics...
  
  
• Kurnow, Ernest
  Ernest Kurnow
  Ernest Kurnow is a professor of undergraduate business statistics at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University, where he has been teaching since 1948. In his tenure at NYU, he has served as director of the Doctoral Program and was the chairman of the Department of Statistics...
  
  
• Kuzmicich, Steve
  Steve Kuzmicich
  Steve Kuzmicich is a statistician from New Zealand and was Government Statistician of New Zealand from 1984 to 1992.-References:...
  
  
• Kuznets, Simon
  Simon Kuznets
  Simon Smith Kuznets was a Russian American economist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and...
  
  

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• Lah, Ivo
  Ivo Lah
  Ivo Lah was a Slovenian mathematician and actuary, best known for his discovery of the Lah numbers in 1955.Lah attended elementary school in St. Vid nad Cerknico and in Ljubljana...
  
  
• Laird, Nan
  Nan Laird
  Nan M. Laird is a professor in Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health. She served as Chair of the Department from 1990 to 1999. She was the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics from 1991 to 1999. Laird is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, as well as the...
  
  
• Lange, Antti
  Antti Lange
  Antti Lange is a Finnish mathematician andstatistician of the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Previous employers included ECMWF, WMO, Helsinki University and the University of Jyväskylä.-External links:*...
  
  
• Laslett, Peter
  Peter Laslett
  -Biography:Born Thomas Peter Ruffell Laslett and educated at the Watford Grammar School for Boys, Peter Laslett studied history at St John's College, Cambridge in 1935 and graduated with a double first in 1938. During the war he learned Japanese and worked at Bletchley Park and Washington decoding...
  
  
• Laspeyres, Étienne
  Étienne Laspeyres
  Ernst Louis Étienne Laspeyres was Professor ordinarius of economics and statistics or State Sciences and cameralistics in Basel, Riga, Dorpat , Karlsruhe, and finally for 26 years in Gießen...
  
   (1834–1913)
• Lathrop, Mark
  Mark Lathrop
  Mark Lathrop is a Canadian Biostatistician. Is Currently the head of the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphisms.-Bibliography:...
  
  
• Law, John
  John Law (economist)
  John Law was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade...
  
   (1671–1729)
• Lawrence, Charles
  Charles Lawrence (mathematician)
  Charles "Chip" Lawrence is an American bioinformatician and mathematician, who is the pioneer in developing novel statistical approaches to biological sequence analysis....
  
  
• Lehmann, Erich Leo
  Erich Leo Lehmann
  Erich Leo Lehmann was an American statistician, who contributed to statistical and nonparametric hypothesis testing...
  
  
• Lemon, Charles
  Charles Lemon
  Sir Charles Lemon, 2nd Baronet Lemon of Carclew was a British Member of Parliament for several constituencies and a baronet.-Service in Parliament:...
  
  
• Leontief, Wassily
  Wassily Leontief
  Wassily Wassilyovich Leontief , was a Russian-American economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors. Leontief won the Nobel Committee's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1973, and three of his doctoral students have also...
  
  
• Levit, Boris
  Boris Levit
  Boris Ya. Levit is a professor of statistics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.-Career:Levit obtained his M.Sc. in Mathematics from Moscow State University and his Ph.D. in Statistics from Russian Academy of Science in 1975...
  
  
• Lewis, Tony
  Tony Lewis (mathematician)
  Anthony John Lewis, MBE is a mathematician who, along with Frank Duckworth, developed the Duckworth-Lewis method of resetting targets in interrupted cricket matches....
  
  
• Lexis, Wilhelm
  Wilhelm Lexis
  Wilhelm Lexis was an eminent German statistician, economist, and social scientist and a founder of the interdisciplinary study of insurance....
  
   (1837–1914)
• Li, C. C.
• Li, David X.
  David X. Li
  David X. Li is a quantitative analyst and a qualified actuary who in the early 2000s pioneered the use of Gaussian copula models for the pricing of collateralized debt obligations...
  
  
• Likert, Rensis
  Rensis Likert
  Rensis Likert was an American educator and organizational psychologist best known for his research on management styles...
  
  
• Lilliefors, Hubert
  Hubert Lilliefors
  Hubert Whitman Lilliefors was an American statistician, noted for his introduction of the Lilliefors test...
  
   (1928?–2008)
• Lindeberg, Jarl Waldemar
  Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg
  Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg was a Finnish mathematician known for work on the central limit theorem....
  
   (1876–1932)
• Lindley, Dennis V.
  Dennis Lindley
  Dennis Victor Lindley is a British statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics.Dennis Lindley grew up in the south-west London suburb of Surbiton. He was an only child and his father was a local building contractor...
  
   (1923–)
• Lindstedt, Anders
  Anders Lindstedt
  Anders Lindstedt was a Swedish mathematician, astronomer, and actuarial scientist, known for the Lindstedt-Poincaré method.- Life and work :...
  
  
• Lindstrom, Frederick B.
  Frederick B. Lindstrom
  Frederick B. Lindstrom was an American sociologist specializing in popular culture and demography who spent over four decades, starting in 1953, as professor of sociology at Arizona State University.A Massachusetts native, Lindstrom was born in the town of Palmer, located within the Springfield...
  
  
• Linnik, Yuri
  Yuri Linnik
  Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik was a Soviet mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics.Linnik was born in Bila Tserkva, in present-day Ukraine. He went to St Petersburg University where his supervisor was Vladimir Tartakovski, and later worked at that...
  
   (1915–1972)
• Liu, Jun
  Jun Liu
  Jun Liu is an award-winning Chinese-American statistician. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2002. He is a professor in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and has written many research papers and a book about Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms, including their...
  
  
• Longman, Phillip
  Phillip Longman
  Phillip Longman is an American demographer. Presently he is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and he formerly worked as a senior writer and deputy assistant managing editor at U.S...
  
  
• Lord, Frederic M.
  Frederic M. Lord
  Frederic M. Lord was a psychometrician for Educational Testing Service. He was the source of much of the seminal research on item response theory, including two important books: Statistical Theories of Mental Test Scores , and Applications of Item Response Theory to Practical...
  
  
• Lorenz, Max O.
  Max O. Lorenz
  Max Otto Lorenz was an American economist who developed the Lorenz curve in 1905 to describe income inequalities. He published this paper while a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison...
  
  
• Lotka, Alfred J.
  Alfred J. Lotka
  Alfred James Lotka was a US mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics. An American biophysicist best known for his proposal of the predator-prey model, developed simultaneously but independently of Vito Volterra...
  
   (1880–1949)
• Loève, Michel
  Michel Loève
  Michel Loève was a French American probabilist and a mathematical statistician, of Palestinian Jewish origin. His name is known to probabilists and statisticians because of the Karhunen–Loève theorem and Karhunen–Loève transform.Michel Loève was born in Jaffa, Palestine in 1907, during the Ottoman...
  
  
• Lubbock, John
  John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
  John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....
  
  
• Lundberg, Filip
  Filip Lundberg
  Ernst Filip Oskar Lundberg Swedish actuary, founder of mathematical risk theory and managing director of several insurance companies....
  
   (1876–1965)
• Luntz, Frank
  Frank Luntz
  Frank I. Luntz is an American political consultant and pollster. His most recent work has been with the Fox News Channel as a frequent commentator and analyst, as well as running focus groups after presidential debates...
  
  

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• MacGregor, John F.
  John F. MacGregor
  John Frederick MacGregor is a statistician whose work in the field of statistical process control has received significant recognition...
  
  
• Mahalanobis, Prasanta Chandra
  Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
  Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis FRS was an Indian scientist and applied statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure. He made pioneering studies in anthropometry in India...
  
   (1893–1972)
• Mallet, Bernard
  Bernard Mallet
  Sir Bernard Mallet, KCB was a British civil servant.He was the son of Sir Louis Mallet.. He was educated at Clifton College and Balliol College, Oxford. He became private secretary to Arthur Balfour. Later, he was Registrar General and President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1916 to 1918...
  
  
• Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766–1834)
• Mannheimer, Renato
  Renato Mannheimer
  Renato Mannheimer is an Italian pollster and professor of sociology at the Universita' degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca.He has published in academic journals and is a consultant to the daily Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera and to the Italian public service broadcaster RAI.He is most famous for...
  
  
• Mantel, Nathan
  Nathan Mantel
  Nathan Mantel was a biostatistician best known for his work with William Haenszel which led to the Mantel–Haenszel test and its associated estimate, the Mantel–Haenszel odds ratio...
  
   (1919–2002)
• Mardia, Kantilal
  Kantilal Mardia
  Kantilal Vardichand Mardia is a statistician specializing in directional statistics, multivariate analysis, geostatistics, statistical bioinformatics and statistical shape analysis. He was born in Sirohi, Rajasthan, India and now resides and works in Leeds...
  
  
• Marpsat, Maryse
  Maryse Marpsat
  Maryse Marpsat is a French sociologist and statistician whose work employs methods drawn from sociology and statistics but also mathematics. Her major sociological works concern poverty, inequality and homeless situation...
  
  
• Marquardt, Donald
  Donald Marquardt
  Donald W. Marquardt was an American statistician, the rediscoverer of the Levenberg–Marquardt nonlinear least squares fitting algorithm....
  
   (1929–1997)
• Marquis, Frederick
• Marschak, Jacob
  Jacob Marschak
  Jacob Marschak was an American economist of Ukrainian Jewish origin.- Life :...
  
  
• Marshall, Herbert
• Martin, Sir Richard
  Sir Richard Martin, 1st Baronet
  Sir Richard Biddulph Martin, 1st Baronet was an English banker and Liberal Party politician....
  
  
• Massey, Kenneth
  Kenneth Massey
  Kenneth Massey is an American sports statistician known for his development of a methodology for ranking and rating sports teams in a variety of sports...
  
  
• Masuyama, Motosaburo
  Motosaburo Masuyama
  was a Japanese statistician who championed the ideas of R.A. Fisher and went on to influence the fields of quality control and biometrics.-Life:Born Otaru, Hokkaidō, Masuyama graduated in physics from the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1937 and earned his doctorate in 1943...
  
   (1912–2005)
• Mauchly, John
  John Mauchly
  John William Mauchly was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.Together they started the first computer company,...
  
  
• McClintock, Emory
  Emory McClintock
  Emory McClintock was an American actuary, born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Columbia University, where he was tutor in mathematics in 1859-1860. From 1863 to 1866 he served as United States consular agent at Bradford, England...
  
  
• McCrossan, Paul
  Paul McCrossan
  William Paul Joseph McCrossan is an actuary and former Canadian Member of Parliament.-Background:McCrossan was born in Toronto. An actuary by profession, McCrossan has served as president of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries...
  
  
• McCullagh, Peter
  Peter McCullagh
  Peter McCullagh is an Irish statistician, originally from Plumbridge, Northern Ireland. He attended Birmingham University and completed his Ph.D. at Imperial College London under Sir David Cox and Anthony Atkinson. He is currently the John D...
  
  
• McEvedy, Colin
  Colin McEvedy
  Colin Peter McEvedy , was a British psychiatrist, historian, demographer and non-fiction author. He was born in Salford, Lancashire and died in London....
  
  
• McKendrick, Anderson Gray
  Anderson Gray McKendrick
  Anderson Gray McKendrick was a Scottish physician and epidemiologist pioneered the use of mathematical methods in epidemiology...
  
   (1876–1943)
• McLennan, Bill
  Bill McLennan
  William Patrick McLennan is an Australian statistician who was Director of the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom and Australian Statistician.-Early years:...
  
  
• McNemar, Quinn
  Quinn McNemar
  Quinn McNemar was a US psychologist and statistician. He is known for his work on IQ tests, for his book Psychological Statistics and for McNemar's test, the statistical test he introduced in 1947....
  
   (1900–1986)
• McVean, Gilean
  Gilean McVean
  Gilean "Gil" McVean is a professor of statistical genetics at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He is a member of the 1000 Genomes Project steering committee.-Education and employment:...
  
  
• Meeker, Royal
  Royal Meeker
  Royal Meeker was an American economist, born at Quaker Lake, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Iowa State College in 1898, then studied with E.R.A. Seligman at Columbia and for a year at the University of Leipzig...
  
  
• Meier, Paul
  Paul Meier (statistician)
  Paul Meier was a statistician who promoted the use of randomized trials in medicine. He is also known for introducing, with Edward L. Kaplan, the Kaplan–Meier estimator, a tool for measuring how many patients survive a medical treatment.-External links:...
  
  , (1924-2011)
• Meng, Xiao-Li
  Xiao-Li Meng
  Xiao-Li Meng is an award-winning Chinese-American statistician, and the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2001...
  
  
• Mihoc, Gheorghe
  Gheorghe Mihoc
  Gheorghe Mihoc was a famous Romanian statistician. He was born in Brăila, the son of a worker.In 1908, his father moved the family to Bucharest. Here he attended elementary school and the Gheorghe Şincai high school...
  
  
• Milliken, George A.
  George A. Milliken
  George A. Milliken, Ph.D. is emeritus professor of statistics at Kansas State University. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has published many papers in various statistical journals. Dr...
  
  
• Milliman, Wendell
  Wendell Milliman
  Wendell Milliman was a founder of Milliman, Inc., formerly Milliman & Robertson, one of the largest actuarial and business consulting firms in the world...
  
  
• Milne, Joshua
  Joshua Milne
  -Carlisle table:In 1815 he compiled the Carlisle table based on figures from the 1780 census and deaths in two parishes of Carlisle, England. It proved remarkably accurate and was still in use in parts of the 20th century.-References:...
  
  
• Milnes, Richard Monckton
  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton FRS was an English poet, patron of literature and politician.-Background and education:...
  
  
• Mitchell, Wesley Clair
  Wesley Clair Mitchell
  Wesley Clair Mitchell was an American economist known for his empirical work on business cycles and for guiding the National Bureau of Economic Research in its first decades....
  
  
• Mitofsky, Warren
  Warren Mitofsky
  Warren Mitofsky was an American political pollster.Mitofsky graduated in 1957 from Guilford College and was executive director of the CBS News election and survey unit from 1967 to 1990...
  
  
• Mohn, Jakob
  Jakob Mohn
  Jakob Neumann Mohn was a Norwegian statistician.-Personal life:He was born in Bergen as a son of Albert Henrik Mohn and Ida Neumann . Originally named Jacob, he changed the spelling. He was a brother of Henrik and Emanuel Mohn. On the maternal side, he was a grandson of bishop Jacob Neumann...
  
  
• Moivre, Abraham de
  Abraham de Moivre
  Abraham de Moivre was a French mathematician famous for de Moivre's formula, which links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory. He was a friend of Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, and James Stirling...
  
  
• Molina, Edward C.
  Edward C. Molina
  Edward Charles Dixon Molina was an American engineer, known for his contributions to teletraffic engineering....
  
  
• Moore, Henry Ludwell
  Henry Ludwell Moore
  Henry Ludwell Moore was an American economist known for his pioneering work in econometrics.Moore was born in Charles County, Maryland, the first of 15 children. He received a B.A. from Randolph-Macon College in 1892 and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1896. His thesis was on von Thünen's...
  
  
• Moran, Pat
• Mores, Edward Rowe
  Edward Rowe Mores
  Edward Rowe Mores, FSA was an English antiquarian and scholar, with works on history and typography...
  
  
• Morgan, William
  William Morgan (scientist)
  William Morgan, FRS was a Welsh physician, physicist and statistician, who is considered the father of modern actuarial science....
  
  
• Morris, Carl
  Carl Morris (statistician)
  Carl Morris is a professor in the Statistics Department of Harvard University and spent several years as a researcher for the RAND Corporation working on the RAND Health Insurance Experiment.-Chronology:...
  
  
• Morrison, Winifred J.
• Moser, Claus
  Claus Moser, Baron Moser
  Claus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser, KCB, CBE is a British statistician who has made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service...
  
   (1922–)
• Mosteller, Frederick (1916–2006)
• Mouat, Frederic J.
  Frederic J. Mouat
  Frederic John Mouat was a British surgeon.He was born in Maidstone, Kent, the son of an army surgeon, and trained at University College London and Edinburgh University, qualifying as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1838. He entered the Indian Medical Service and was posted...
  
  
• Moyal, José Enrique
  José Enrique Moyal
  José Enrique Moyal was a mathematical physicist who contributed to aeronautical engineering, electrical engineering and statistics, among other fields...
  
  

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• Nason, Guy
  Guy Nason
  Guy Nason is a British statistician, a Professor of Statistics at the University of Bristol and Head of the Mathematics Department there.-Biography:...
  
  
• Neill, Charles P.
  Charles P. Neill
  Charles Patrick Neill was an American civil servant who raised in Austin, Texas after his family emigrated from Ireland in 1850. Neill graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1897 with a doctorate in economics and politics. He was appointed the United States Commissioner of Labor in 1906 by...
  
  
• Nelder, John
  John Nelder
  John Ashworth Nelder FRS was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory.-Contributions:...
  
  
• Nesbitt, Cecil J.
  Cecil J. Nesbitt
  Cecil James Nesbitt, Ph.D., F.S.A., M.A.A.A. was a mathematician who was a Ph.D. student of Richard Brauer and wrote many influential papers in the early history of modular representation theory. He taught actuarial mathematics at the University of Michigan from 1938 to 1980. Nesbitt was born in...
  
  
• Newmarch, William
  William Newmarch
  William Newmarch was a Yorkshireman, English banker, economist and statistician born at Thirsk, Yorkshire.He took his schooling at York, and, as a young man, held some clerkly appointments in that city...
  
   (1820–1882)
• Neyman, Jerzy
  Jerzy Neyman
  Jerzy Neyman , born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish American mathematician and statistician who spent most of his professional career at the University of California, Berkeley.-Life and career:...
  
   (1894–1981)
• Nightingale, Florence
  Florence Nightingale
  Florence Nightingale OM, RRC was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night...
  
   (1820–1910)
• Noether, Gottfried E.
  Gottfried E. Noether
  Gottfried Emanuel Noether was an American statistician and educator...
  
  
• Nordling, Carl O.
  Carl O. Nordling
  Carl O. Nordling was a Finnish born architect, urban planner and amateur historian. He graduated as an architect from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1939 and immigrated to Sweden after the end of the Continuation War in 1944.As a statistician, he applied statistical methods to a number...
  
  
• Notestein, Frank W.
  Frank W. Notestein
  Frank Wallace Notestein was an American demographer who contributed significantly to the development of the science. He was the founding director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, and later president of the Population Council...
  
  

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• Ogburn, William Fielding
  William Fielding Ogburn
  William Fielding Ogburn was an American sociologist who was born in Butler, Georgia and died in Tallahassee, Florida. He was also a statistician and an educator. Ogburn received his B.A. degree from Mercer University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University...
  
  
• Olshansky, S. Jay
  S. Jay Olshansky
  Stuart Jay Olshansky is currently a Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Research Associate at the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.-Biography:He received his Ph.D...
  
  
• Onicescu, Octav
  Octav Onicescu
  Octav Onicescu was a Romanian mathematician, member of the Romanian Academy, and founder of the Romanian school of probability theory and statistics.-Biography:...
  
  
• Onslow, William
  William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow
  William Hillier Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow GCMG, PC was a British Conservative politician. He held several governmental positions between 1880 and 1905 and was also Governor of New Zealand between 1889 and 1892....
  
  
• Orshansky, Mollie
  Mollie Orshansky
  Mollie Orshansky, , was an American economist and statistician who, in 1963–65, developed the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, which are used in the United States as a measure of the income that a household must not exceed to be counted as poor.-Life and career:Miss Orshansky was born January 9, 1915,...
  
  

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• Paine, George
  George Paine (registrar)
  George Paine CB DFC was a statistician in the British Civil Service. He rose to become Director of Statistics and Intelligence at the Inland Revenue, Registrar General of England and Wales, and Director of Office of Population Censuses and Surveys from November 1972.He was born in Kent and was...
  
  
• Pakington, John
  John Pakington, 1st Baron Hampton
  John Somerset Pakington, 1st Baron Hampton GCB, PC FRS , known as Sir John Pakington, Bt from 1846 to 1874, was a British Conservative politician.-Background and education:...
  
  
• Panaretos, John
  John Panaretos
  John Panaretos since October 6, 2009 is the Deputy Minister of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs. He has also been appointed by the Greek Prime Minister in charge of the project.He is a Greek educator and statistician...
  
  
• Parzen, Emanuel
  Emanuel Parzen
  Emanuel Parzen is an American statistician. He has worked and published on signal detection theory and time series analysis, where he pioneered the use of kernel density estimation . Parzen is the recipient of the 1994 Samuel S...
  
   (1929–)
• Pearl, Raymond
  Raymond Pearl
  Raymond Pearl was an American biologist, regarded as one of the founders of biogerontology. He spent most of his career at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore....
  
  
• Pearson, Egon
  Egon Pearson
  Egon Sharpe Pearson, CBE FRS was the only son of Karl Pearson, and like his father, a leading British statistician....
  
   (1895–1980)
• Pearson, Karl
  Karl Pearson
  Karl Pearson FRS was an influential English mathematician who has been credited for establishing the disciplineof mathematical statistics....
  
   (1857–1936)
• Peirce, Charles Sanders
• Pereira, Basilio de Bragança
  Basilio de Bragança Pereira
  Basílio de Bragança Pereira is a Brazilian statistician.He studied at Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas since 1958 until his BSc in Statistics , and obtained his Ph.D.and D.I.C. from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine supervised by Sir David Cox...
  
  
• Peto, Julian
  Julian Peto
  Julian Peto is an English statistician and cancer epidemiologist. He is Cancer Research UK Chair of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Institute of Cancer Research...
  
  
• Peto, Richard
  Richard Peto
  Sir Richard Peto FRS is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford.He attended Taunton's School in Southampton and subsequently studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University....
  
  
• Petty, William
  William Petty
  Sir William Petty FRS was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell's soldiers...
  
   (1623–1687)
• Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry
  Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
  Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne KG, PC, FRS , known as Lord Henry Petty from 1784 to 1809 and then as The Earl of Kerry to 1818, was a British statesman...
  
  
• Piekałkiewicz, Jan
  Jan Piekałkiewicz
  Jan Piekałkiewicz was a Polish economist and statistician, politician and the Polish Underground State's Government Delegate.-Biography:...
  
  
• Pillai, K. C. Sreedharan
  K. C. Sreedharan Pillai
  K C Sreedharan Pillai was an Indian statistician who was known for his works on multivariate analysis and probability distributions....
  
  
• Pillai, Vijayan K
• Pink, Brian
  Brian Pink
  Brian Pink has been the Australian Statistician, the head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics , since 5 March 2007.Prior to September 1999, Brian Pink was ABS's Statistical Support Group Manager, when he was appointed as the Government Statistician for New Zealand and Chief Executive of...
  
  
• Pitman, E. J. G.
  E. J. G. Pitman
  Edwin James George Pitman was an Australian mathematician who made a significant contribution to statistics and probability theory...
  
   (1897–1993)
• Plackett, Robin
  Robin Plackett
  Robin L. Plackett was a statistician best known for his contributions to the history of statistics and to experimental design, most notably the Plackett–Burman designs....
  
  
• Playfair, William
  William Playfair
  William Playfair was a Scottish engineer and political economist, the founder of graphical methods of statistics....
  
   (1759–1823)
• Pleszczyńska, Elżbieta
  Elzbieta Pleszczynska
  Elżbieta Pleszczyńska is a Polish full professor of statistics, activist of disability rights movement.-Biography:M.Sc in mathematics at University of Warsaw, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry in 1956. She held position at Institute of Mathematics PAS until 1972. She received her Ph.D...
  
  
• Pocock, Stuart
  Stuart Pocock
  Stuart J. Pocock is a British medical statistician. He has been professor of medical statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine since 1989. His research interests include statistical methods for the design, monitoring, analysis and reporting of randomized clinical trials...
  
  
• Pollak, Henry O.
  Henry O. Pollak
  Henry Otto Pollak is an Austrian-American mathematician, known for his contributionsto information theory.Born in Vienna, Austria, he since moved to USA. While at Yale University for his B.Sc. in mathematics...
  
  
• Polson, Nicholas
  Nicholas Polson
  Nicholas Polson is a British statistician who is currently a professor of econometrics and statistics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His works are primarily in Bayesian statistics, Markov chain Monte Carlo and Sequential Monte Carlo,...
  
  
• Preston, Samuel H.
  Samuel H. Preston
  Samuel H. Preston is an American demographer and sociologist. He is currently a Fredrick J. Warren Professor of Demography at the University of Pennsylvania....
  
  
• Price, Richard
  Richard Price
  Richard Price was a British moral philosopher and preacher in the tradition of English Dissenters, and a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He fostered connections between a large number of people, including writers of the...
  
  
• Priestley, Maurice
  Maurice Priestley
  Maurice Bertram Priestley is emeritus professor of statistics in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester. He gained his first degree at the University of Cambridge and went on to gain a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester....
  
  
• Princet, Maurice
  Maurice Princet
  Maurice Princet was a French mathematician and actuary who played a role in the birth of cubism. He was an associate of Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Jean Metzinger, and Marcel Duchamp...
  
  
• Punnett, Reginald
  Reginald Punnett
  Professor Reginald Crundall Punnett FRS was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the Journal of Genetics in 1910. Punnett is probably best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes...
  
  
• Pólya, George
  George Pólya
  George Pólya was a Hungarian mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory...
  
   (1887–1985)

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• Raftery, Adrian
  Adrian Raftery
  Adrian E. Raftery is an Irish and American statistician.He is the Blumstein-Jordan Professor of Statistics and Sociology, and founding Director of the at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA...
  
  
• Raghavarao, D.
  D. Raghavarao
  Damaraju Raghavarao is an Indian-born statistician, currently the Laura H. Carnell professor of statistics and chair of the department of statistics at Temple University in Philadelphia....
  
  
• Raiffa, Howard
  Howard Raiffa
  Howard Raiffa is the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics, a joint chair held by the Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University...
  
  
• Ralescu, Stefan
  Stefan Ralescu
  Ştefan S. Ralescu is a leading statistician who has made significant contributions to the theory of statistical inference, mainly through asymptotic theory. He is a professor of mathematics and statistics at Queens College of the City University of New York in New York. He studied first at the...
  
   (1952–)
• Rao, C.R. (1920–)
• Rasch, Georg
  Georg Rasch
  Georg Rasch was a Danish mathematician, statistician, and psychometrician, most famous for the development of a class of measurement models known as Rasch models. He studied with R.A. Fisher and also briefly with Ragnar Frisch, and was elected a member of the International Statistical Institute in...
  
   (1901–1980)
• Redington, Frank
  Frank Redington
  Frank Mitchell Redington was a noted British actuary. Frank Redington was best known for his development of Immunisation Theory which specifies how a fixed income portfolio can be "immunised" against changing interest rates....
  
  
• Reid, Nancy
  Nancy Reid
  Nancy Margaret Reid is a Canadian theoretical statistician.She was an associate professor at the University of British Columbia from 1980–5, then joined the University of Toronto and has remained there ever since, becoming a full professor in 1988.Reid won the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1992 and...
  
  
• Reiersøl, Olav
  Olav Reiersøl
  Olav Reiersøl was a Norwegian statistician and econometrician, who made several substantial contributions to econometrics and statistics...
  
   (1908–2001)
• Rhodes, E. C.
  E. C. Rhodes
  Edmund Cecil Rhodes , a statistician, was born in Yorkshire and named after Cecil Rhodes. He went to Bradford Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he graduated as Wrangler in 1914. In 1924 he became Reader at the London School of Economics where he remained until he retired in 1958...
  
  
• Rice, Thomas Spring
  Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon
  Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, PC, FRS was a British Whig politician, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839.-Background:...
  
  
• Richardson, Sylvia
  Sylvia Richardson
  Sylvia Richardson is a French Bayesian statistician. She has been chair in Biostatistics at Imperial College London since 2000. Previously, she held lectureships at Warwick University and the University of Paris V....
  
  
• Rickman, John
  John Rickman
  John Rickman was an English government official and statistician of the early nineteenth century.He was born in Newburn, Northumberland, son of the Rev Thomas Rickman and educated at Guildford Grammar School, Magdalen Hall, Oxford and Lincoln College, Oxford...
  
  
• Ripley, Brian Daniel
  Brian D. Ripley
  Brian David Ripley is a renowned British statistician. Since 1990, he has been professor of applied statistics at the University of Oxford and is also a professorial fellow at St Peter's College....
  
   (1952–)
• Robbins, Herbert
  Herbert Robbins
  Herbert Ellis Robbins was an American mathematician and statistician who did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields. He was the co-author, with Richard Courant, of What is Mathematics?, a popularization that is still in print. The Robbins lemma, used in...
  
   (1922–2001)
• Roberts, Gareth O.
  Gareth Roberts (statistician)
  Gareth O. Roberts is a professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Director of the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology at the University of Warwick....
  
  
• Roberts, Harry V.
  Harry V. Roberts
  Harry V. Roberts , statistician, was a distinguished teacher and a pioneer in looking at the applications of Bayesian statistics to business decision making and in Total Quality Management....
  
  
• Robertson, Stuart A.
  Stuart A. Robertson
  Stuart A. Robertson was co-founder, with Wendell Milliman, of Milliman, Inc., formerly Milliman & Robertson, which would grow to become one of the largest actuarial and business consulting firms in the world, encompassing more than 30 locations throughout the United States with offices in 16 other...
  
  
• Robine, Jean-Marie
  Jean-Marie Robine
  Jean-Marie Robine is a French demographer and gerontologist who is best known as being the co-validator of the Jeanne Calment case, the oldest verified supercentenarian of all time....
  
  
• Robins, James
  James Robins
  James M. Robins is an epidemiologist and biostatistician best known for advancing methods for drawing causal inferences from complex observational studies and randomized trials, particularly those in which the treatment varies with time....
  
  
• Robinson, Claude E.
  Claude E. Robinson
  Claude E. Robinson was an American pioneer in advertising research and opinion survey research techniques. Along with George Gallup, he was instrumental in developing many scientific sampling techniques that were later used in Gallup polls and other public opinion research surveys.- Life :Claude...
  
  
• Rosenthal, Jeffrey S.
  Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
  Jeffrey S. Rosenthal is an award-winning Canadian statistician and author. He is a professor in the University of Toronto's Department of Statistics. He received the CRM-SSC Prize in 2006 and the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2007...
  
  
• Roy, Bimal Kumar
  Bimal Kumar Roy
  Bimal Kumar Roy is the current Director of the Indian Statistical Institute. He is a renowned cryptologist from the Cryptology Research Group of the Applied Statistics Unit of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He received a Ph.D. in Combinatorics and Optimization in 1982 from the University of...
  
  
• Roy, S. N.
  S. N. Roy
  Samarendra Nath Roy or S. N. Roy was an Indian-born American mathematician and an applied statistician. He was the first of two children of Kali Nath Roy and Suniti Bala Roy. His father, Kali Nath Roy was a freedom fighter and the Chief Editor of the newspaper TRIBUNE.Prof. Roy had a brilliant...
  
   (1906–1966)
• Rubin, Donald
  Donald Rubin
  Donald Bruce Rubin is the John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He was hired by Harvard in 1984, and served as chair of the department from 1985-1994....
  
  
• Rubinow, I. M.
  I. M. Rubinow
  Isaac Max Rubinow was a leading theorist on social insurance and one of the most influential writers on the subject. Rubinow was an MD, and held a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. His 1913 book, Social Insurance, was the most influential early work on social security...
  
  
• Rubinstein, Reuven
  Reuven Rubinstein
  Reuven Rubinstein is an Israeli scientist known for his contributions to Monte Carlo simulation, applied probability, stochastic modeling and stochastic optimization, having authored more than one hundred papers and six books....
  
  
• Ruggles, Steven
  Steven Ruggles
  Steven Ruggles is Regents Professor Professor of History and Population Studies at the University of Minnesota, and the Director of the Minnesota Population Center....
  
  
• Russell, John
  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC , known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century....
  
  
• Ryder, Dudley
  Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby
  Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby KG, PC, FRS , styled Viscount Sandon between 1809 and 1847, was a British politician...
  
  

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• Sagarin, Jeff
  Jeff Sagarin
  Jeff Sagarin is an American sports statistician well-known for his development of a methodology for ranking and rating sports teams in a variety of sports...
  
  
• Saha, Jahar
  Jahar Saha
  Jahar Saha is a professor and former director of the Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, a position he held from 1998 to 2002.-Education:...
  
  
• Saint-Maur, Nicolas-François Dupré de
  Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur
  Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur was a French economist and statistician.-Life:From a family of jurists and financial figures, he was the son of a correcteur in the Chambre des comptes and cousin of Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour...
  
  
• Salsburg, David
  David Salsburg
  David S. Salsburg gained fame as the author of The Lady Tasting Tea, subtitled How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century...
  
  
• Samuel, Herbert
  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
  Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel GCB OM GBE PC was a British politician and diplomat.-Early years:...
  
  
• Sanders, William
  William Sanders (statistician)
  Dr. William L. Sanders is a senior research fellow with the University of North Carolina. He developed the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System , also known as the Educational Value-Added Assessment System , a method for measuring a teacher's effect on student performance by tracking the...
  
  
• Savage, Leonard Jimmie
  Leonard Jimmie Savage
  Leonard Jimmie Savage was an American mathematician and statistician. Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman said Savage was "one of the few people I have met whom I would unhesitatingly call a genius."...
  
   (1917–1971)
• Sawilowsky, Shlomo
  Shlomo Sawilowsky
  Shlomo S. Sawilowsky is professor of educational statistics and Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he has received teaching, mentoring, and research awards.- Academic career :...
  
   (1954-)
• Scheffé, Henry
  Henry Scheffé
  Henry Scheffé was an American statistician. He is known for the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and Scheffé's method.- External links :...
  
   (1907–1977)
• Schlaifer, Robert
  Robert Schlaifer
  Robert O. Schlaifer was a pioneer of Bayesian decision theory. At the time of his death he was William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration Emeritus of the Harvard Business School....
  
   (1915–1994)
• Schultz, Henry
  Henry Schultz
  Henry Schultz was an American economist and statistician, one of the founders of econometrics.-Life:Henry Schultz was born on September 4, 1893 in a Polish family in Szarkowszczyzna, the Russian Empire...
  
  
• Schuster, Arthur
  Arthur Schuster
  Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster FRS was a German-born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics...
  
   (1851–1934)
• Schweder, Tore
  Tore Schweder
  Tore Schweder is a Norwegian statistician and is a professor at the Department of Economics and at the Centre for Ecology and Evolutionary Synthesis at the University of Oslo. Schweder has worked with scientists in a number of fields, including medicine, demography, sociology, economics, ecology,...
  
   (1943–)
• Scott, Elizabeth (1917–1988)
• Scurfield, Hugh Hedley
  Hugh Hedley Scurfield
  Hugh Scurfield is an English actuary of considerable note. He was born December 9, 1935 in the County of Durham, England; the third of four children to William Russell Scurfield and Elizabeth Morton Scurfield . He graduated from Hertford College, Oxford with an M.A...
  
  
• Searle, Shayle R.
  Shayle R. Searle
  Shayle Robert Searle Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Biological Statistics at Cornell University. He is a leader in the field of linear and mixed models in statistics, and has published widely on the topics of linear models, mixed models, and variance component estimation.Searle is one of the first...
  
   (1928–)
• Sebastiani, Paola
  Paola Sebastiani
  Paola Sebastiani is a biostatistician and a Professor at Boston University working in the field of genetic epidemiology, building prognostic models that can be used for the dissection of complex traits...
  
  
• Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Pyotr (1827–1914)
• Shah, B. V.
  B. V. Shah
  Babubhai V. Shah , professor of statistics, was a chief scientist at Research Triangle Institute from 1966 till he retired in 2003. He held several positions with RIT and Research Triangle Park for over four decades. B. V...
  
  
• Shapley, Lloyd
  Lloyd Shapley
  Lloyd Stowell Shapley is a distinguished American mathematician and economist. He is a Professor Emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles, affiliated with departments of Mathematics and Economics...
  
   (1923–)
• Shaw-Lefevre, George
  George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley
  George John Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley PC, DL was a British Liberal Party politician. In a ministerial career that spanned thirty years, he was twice First Commissioner of Works and also served as Postmaster General and President of the Local Government Board.-Background and...
  
  
• Shepp, Lawrence
  Lawrence Shepp
  Lawrence Shepp is an American mathematician, specialising in statistics and computational tomography.Shepp obtained his PhD from Princeton University with a dissertation entitled Recurrent Sums of Random Variables. His advisor was William Feller. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1962. He joined...
  
  
• Sheppard, William Fleetwood
  William Fleetwood Sheppard
  William Fleetwood Sheppard Australian-British civil servant, mathematician and statistician remembered for his work in finite differences, interpolation and statistical theory, known in particular for the eponymous Sheppard’s corrections.William Fleetwood Sheppard was born near Sydney, Australia...
  
   (1863–1936)
• Shewhart, Walter A.
  Walter A. Shewhart
  Walter Andrew Shewhart March 18, 1891 - March 11, 1967) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical quality control.W...
  
   (1891–1967)
• Shrikhande, S. S.
  S. S. Shrikhande
  Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande is an Indian mathematician with distinguished and well-recognized achievements in combinatorial mathematics. He is notable for his breakthrough work along with R. C. Bose and E. T...
  
   (1917–)
• Sichel, Herbert
  Herbert Sichel
  Dr Herbert Sichel was a statistician who made great advances in the areas of both theoretical and applied statistics.He developed the Sichel-t Estimator for the Log-normal distribution's t-statistic...
  
   (1915–1995)
• Siegel, Sidney
  Sidney Siegel
  Sidney Siegel was an American psychologist who became especially well-known for his work in popularising non-parametric statistics for use in the behavioural sciences. He was a co-developer of the statistical test known as the Siegel–Tukey test.Siegel completed a Ph.D. in Psychology in 1953 at...
  
  
• Silver, Nate
  Nate Silver
  Nathaniel Read "Nate" Silver is an American statistician, psephologist, and writer. Silver first gained public recognition for developing PECOTA, a system for forecasting the performance and career development of Major League Baseball players, which he sold to and then managed for Baseball...
  
  
• Silverman, Bernard
  Bernard Silverman
  Bernard Silverman FRS is a British statistician. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009...
  
  
• Simiand, François
  François Simiand
  François Simiand was a French sociologist and economist best known as a participant in the Année Sociologique. As a member of the French Historical School of economics, Simiand predicated a rigorous factual and statistical basis for theoretical models and policies...
  
  
• Simon, Leslie Earl
  Leslie Earl Simon
  Leslie Earl Simon was a 20th century American scientist , and the author of the book, German Research in World War II: an analysis of the conduct of research. He was Major General, Ordnance Department, U.S...
  
  
• Sinclair, Sir John
  Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet
  Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet was a Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, Statistical Account of Scotland, in 21 volumes.Sinclair was the eldest son of George Sinclair of...
  
   (1754–1835)
• Sirkeci, Ibrahim
  Ibrahim Sirkeci
  İbrahim Sirkeci is a Turkish management scientist who lives in London. He is a Professor in Marketing, Strategy and Law Department at the European Business School London, Regent's College where he teaches international marketing,...
  
  
• Slutsky, Eugen
  Eugen Slutsky
  Evgeny "Eugen" Evgenievich Slutsky was a Russian/Soviet mathematical statistician, economist and political economist.-Slutsky's work in economics:...
  
   (1880–1948)
• Smith, A.F.M
  Adrian Smith (academic)
  Sir Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith FRS is a distinguished British statistician and formerly Principal of Queen Mary, University of London. He was previously at Imperial College, London where he was head of the Mathematics Department. He is a member of the governing body of the London Business...
  
  
• Smith, Cedric (1917–2002)
• Smith, Walter L.
  Walter L. Smith
  Walter Laws Smith is a British-born American mathematician, known for his contributions to applied probability theory.Smith received his B.Sc. in mathematics from Cambridge University, going on to...
  
  
• Snedecor, George W.
  George W. Snedecor
  George Waddel Snedecor was an American mathematician and statistician. He contributed to the foundations of analysis of variance, data analysis, experimental design, and statistical methodology. Snedecor's F distribution and the George W...
  
   (1881–1974)
• Snyder, Carl
  Carl Snyder
  Carl Snyder was an American economist and statistician.Although he attended the University of Iowa and studied in Paris, he was chiefly self-taught. He began as a journalist; at the age of 20, he was editor of the Council Bluffs Nonparell, later writing editorials for the Washington Post...
  
   (1869–1946)
• Sokal, Robert R.
  Robert R. Sokal
  Robert Reuven Sokal is an Austrian-American biostatistician and anthropologist. Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the State University of Stony Brook, New York, Sokal is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
  
  
• Spearman, Charles
  Charles Spearman
  Charles Edward Spearman, FRS was an English psychologist known for work in statistics, as a pioneer of factor analysis, and for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient...
  
   (1863–1945)
• Speed, Terry
  Terry Speed
  Professor Terence Paul Speed, or Terry Speed , is an Australian statistician, known for his contributions to the analysis of variance and bioinformatics, and in particular to the analysis of microarrays data....
  
  
• Spengler, Joseph J.
  Joseph J. Spengler
  Joseph John Spengler was an American economist, statistician, and historian of economic thought. A recipient of the 1951 John Frederick Lewis Award of the American Philosophical Society and the 1981 Distinguished Fellow Award from the History of Economics Society, he was Professor Emeritus of...
  
  
• Spiegelhalter, David
  David Spiegelhalter
  David John Spiegelhalter OBE, FRS, is a distinguished British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge...
  
   (1953–)
• Srivastava, J. N.
  J. N. Srivastava
  Jagdish Narain Srivastava is an Indian-born mathematician, statistician and a professor at Colorado State University. Srivastava is known for the research in the area of Design of experiments, Multivariate analysis and Combinatorial mathematics. Srivastava is a Fellow of Institute of Mathematical...
  
  
• Stamp, Josiah
  Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp
  Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, Bt, GCB, GBE, FBA, was a British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician, writer, and banker. He was a director of the Bank of England and chairman of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.Josiah was born in London, the third of seven...
  
   (1880–1941)
• Stanley, Julian C. Jr.
  Julian C. Stanley Jr.
  Julian C. Stanley Jr. was an American psychologist best known for his work on psychometrics.Born in Macon, Georgia, he graduated from West Georgia Junior College and Georgia Teachers College , now Georgia Southern University. During World War II , he served in the chemical warfare service...
  
  
• Stanley, Edward
  Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby
  Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby KG, PC, FRS , known as Lord Stanley from 1844 to 1869, was a British statesman...
  
  
• Steele, J. Michael
  J. Michael Steele
  John Michael Steele is C.F. Koo Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and he was previously affiliated with Stanford University, Columbia University and Princeton University....
  
  
• Steffensen, Johan Frederik
  Johan Frederik Steffensen
  Johan Frederik Steffensen was a Danish mathematician, statistician, and actuary who did research in the fields of calculus of finite differences and interpolation. He was professor of actuarial science at the University of Copenhagen from 1923 to 1943. Steffensen's inequality and Steffensen's...
  
   (1873–1961)
• Stein, Charles
• Stephens, Matthew
• Stigler, Stephen
  Stephen Stigler
  Stephen Mack Stigler is Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago. His research has focused on statistical theory of robust estimators and the history of statistics...
  
  
• Stone, Richard
  Richard Stone
  Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone was an eminent British economist who in 1984 received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing an accounting model that could be used to track economic activities on a national and, later, an international scale...
  
  
• Stouffer, Samuel A.
  Samuel A. Stouffer
  Samuel Andrew Stouffer was a prominent American sociologist and developer of survey research techniques. Stouffer spent much of his career attempting to answer the fundamental question - How does one measure an attitude?Dr...
  
  
• Stoyan, Dietrich
  Dietrich Stoyan
  Dietrich Stoyan — mathematician, statistician; student of Mathematics at Technical University Dresden; applied research at Deutsches Brennstoffinstitut Freiberg, 1967 PhD, 1975 Habilitation...
  
   (1940–)
• Süssmilch, Johann Peter
  Johann Peter Süssmilch
  Johann Peter Süßmilch or Süssmilch was a German priest, statistician and demographer....
  
  
• Sykes, William Henry
  William Henry Sykes
  Colonel William Henry Sykes, FRS was an Indian Army officer, politician and ornithologist.Sykes was born near Bradford in Yorkshire, and joined the Bombay Army, a part of the armed forces of the Honourable East India Company, in 1804, returning to Britain in 1837...
  
  
• Sylvester, James Joseph
  James Joseph Sylvester
  James Joseph Sylvester was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory and combinatorics...
  
  
• Sztrem, Edward Szturm de
  Edward Szturm de Sztrem
  Edward Szturm de Sztrem was a Polish statistician and demographer. From 1929 till the German invasion of Poland in 1939 he was the director of the Polish Central Statistical Office. In 1937 he became the president of the newly founded Polish Statistical Society...
  
  

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• Taguchi, Genichi
  Genichi Taguchi
  is an engineer and statistician. From the 1950s onwards, Taguchi developed a methodology for applying statistics to improve the quality of manufactured goods...
  
   (1924–)
• Teitelbaum, Michael
  Michael Teitelbaum
  Michael S. Teitelbaum is a demographer at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City.He publishes on immigration issues in both the popular and academic press and served as Commissioner to the U.S. Commission for the Study of International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development and...
  
  
• Telser, Lester G.
  Lester G. Telser
  Lester Greenspan Telser is an American economist and Professor Emeritus in Economics at the University of Chicago.He is a graduate of Roosevelt University. He received his Ph.D...
  
  
• Thiele, Thorvald N.
  Thorvald N. Thiele
  Thorvald Nicolai Thiele was a Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem. He was the first to propose a mathematical theory of Brownian motion...
  
   (1838–1910)
• Thorndike, Robert L.
• Thornton, John Wingate
  John Wingate Thornton
  John Wingate Thornton was a United States lawyer, historian, antiquarian, book collector and author.-Early life:He was born August 12, 1818 at the home of his grandfather, Thomas Gilbert Thornton in Saco, Maine...
  
  
• Thorp, Willard
  Willard Thorp
  Willard L. Thorp was an economist and academic who served three US Presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower as an advisor in both domestic and foreign affairs...
  
  
• Thurstone, Louis Leon
  Louis Leon Thurstone
  Louis Leon Thurstone was a U.S. pioneer in the fields of psychometrics and psychophysics. He conceived the approach to measurement known as the law of comparative judgment, and is well known for his contributions to factor analysis.-Background and history:Louis Leon Thurstone was born in Chicago,...
  
  
• Tippett, Leonard Henry Caleb
  Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett
  Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett was an English physicist and statistician.Born in London, Tippett graduated in physics in the early 1920s at Imperial College. He studied for his Master of Science in statistics under Professor Karl Pearson at the Galton Laboratory, University College London and R. A....
  
  
• Tobin, James
  James Tobin
  James Tobin was an American economist who, in his lifetime, served on the Council of Economic Advisors and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He developed the ideas of Keynesian economics, and advocated government intervention to...
  
  
• Todd, Emmanuel
  Emmanuel Todd
  Emmanuel Todd is a French historian, anthropologist, demographer, sociologist and political scientist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies , in Paris...
  
  
• Tong, Howell
  Howell Tong
  -External links:*...
  
  
• Trewin, Dennis
  Dennis Trewin
  Dennis J. Trewin was the Australian Statistician, the head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, between July 2000 and January 2007.Trewin joined the ABS in 1966 as a Statistics cadet...
  
  
• Trybuła, Stanisław
• Tufte, Edward
  Edward Tufte
  Edward Rolf Tufte is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization....
  
  
• Tukey, John
  John Tukey
  John Wilder Tukey ForMemRS was an American statistician.- Biography :Tukey was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1915, and obtained a B.A. in 1936 and M.Sc. in 1937, in chemistry, from Brown University, before moving to Princeton University where he received a Ph.D...
  
   (1915–2000)

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• Vapnik, Vladimir
  Vladimir Vapnik
  Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik is one of the main developers of Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory. He was born in the Soviet Union. He received his master's degree in mathematics at the Uzbek State University, Samarkand, Uzbek SSR in 1958 and Ph.D in statistics at the Institute of Control Sciences, Moscow in...
  
   (~1935–)
• Vaupel, James
• Villani, Giovanni
  Giovanni Villani
  Giovanni Villani was an Italian banker, official, diplomat and chronicler from Florence who wrote the Nuova Cronica on the history of Florence. He was a leading statesman of Florence but later gained an unsavory reputation and served time in prison as a result of the bankruptcy of a trading and...
  
  
• Visman, Jan
  Jan Visman
  Jan Visman played a key role in building a bridge between sampling theory with its homogeneous populations and sampling practice with its heterogeneous sampling units and sample spaces...
  
  

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• Wahba, Grace
  Grace Wahba
  Grace Wahba is the I. J. Schoenberg Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is a pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data...
  
  
• Wald, Abraham
  Abraham Wald
  - See also :* Sequential probability ratio test * Wald distribution* Wald–Wolfowitz runs test...
  
   (1902–1950)
• Walker, Francis Amasa
  Francis Amasa Walker
  Francis Amasa Walker was an American economist, statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator, and military officer in the Union Army. Walker was born into a prominent Boston family, the son of the economist and politician Amasa Walker, and he graduated from Amherst College at the age...
  
  
• Walker, Gilbert
  Gilbert Walker
  Sir Gilbert Thomas Walker, CSI, FRS, was a British physicist and statistician of the 20th century. He is best known for his groundbreaking description of the Southern Oscillation, a major phenomenon of global climate, and for greatly advancing the study of climate in general.He was born in...
  
  
• Wallace, Chris
  Chris Wallace (computer scientist)
  Professor Christopher Stewart Wallace was an Australian computer scientist notable for having devised:...
  
   (1933–2004)
• Wallis, W. Allen
• Wanless, Derek
  Derek Wanless
  Sir Derek Wanless is an English banker and adviser to the United Kingdom Government.He was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle, has an MA in Mathematics from King's College, Cambridge which he attended on a support grant from Westminster Bank...
  
  
• Watson, Geoffrey
  Geoffrey Watson
  Geoffrey Stuart Watson was an Australian statistician.Watson was born in Bendigo, Victoria in 1921. He studied at the University of Melbourne, and received his PhD at the North Carolina State University in 1951...
  
  
• Wedderburn, Robert
  Robert Wedderburn (statistician)
  Robert William Maclagan Wedderburn was a Scottish statistician who worked at the Rothamsted Experimental Station. He was co-developer, with John Nelder, of the generalized linear model methodology,...
  
  
• Wegman, Edward
  Edward Wegman
  Edward Wegman is a statistician, a statistics professor at George Mason University, and past chair of the National Research Council’s Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a Senior...
  
  
• Weibull, Waloddi
  Waloddi Weibull
  Ernst Hjalmar Waloddi Weibull was a Swedish engineer, scientist, and mathematician.Weibull came from a family that had strong ties to Scania...
  
   (1887–1979)
• Weinstock, Arnold
  Arnold Weinstock
  Arnold Weinstock, Baron Weinstock was an English businessman whom The Guardian newspaper called "Britain's premier post-second-world-war industrialist."...
  
   (1924–2002)
• Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael
  Walter Frank Raphael Weldon
  Walter Frank Raphael Weldon DSc FRS generally called Raphael Weldon, was an English evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry...
  
  
• Welton, Thomas A.
  Thomas A. Welton
  Thomas Abercrombie Welton was a statistician and chartered accountant. He received a Guy Medal in Silver from the Royal Statistical Society in 1901.- External links :* * *...
  
  
• Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Charles
  Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliam
  Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam KG was a British nobleman. He was three times President of the Royal Statistical Society ....
  
  
• Westergaard, Harald Ludvig
  Harald Ludvig Westergaard
  Harald Ludvig Westergaard was a Danish statistician and economist known for his work in demography and the history of statistics....
  
   (1853–1936)
• Wheeler, Donald J.
  Donald J. Wheeler
  Donald J. Wheeler is an American author, statistician and expert in quality control.Wheeler graduated from the University of Texas in 1966 and holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from Southern Methodist University. From 1970 to 1982 he taught in the Statistics Department at the University of...
  
  
• Whittle, Peter
  Peter Whittle
  Peter Whittle is a mathematician and statistician, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimization and stochastic dynamics...
  
   (1927–)
• Wilcoxon, Frank
  Frank Wilcoxon
  Frank Wilcoxon was a chemist and statistician, known for the development of several statistical tests....
  
   (1892–1965)
• Wilk, Martin
  Martin Wilk
  Martin Bradbury Wilk, is a Canadian statistician, academic, and the former Chief Statistician of Canada. In 1965, together with Samuel Shapiro, he developed the Shapiro-Wilk test which can indicate whether a sample of numbers would be unusual if it came from a Gaussian distribution.Born in...
  
   (1922–)
• Wilkinson, Leland
  Leland Wilkinson
  Leland Wilkinson is a statistician and computer scientist at SYSTAT Software Inc. Dr. Wilkinson developed SYSTAT in the early 1980s, sold it to SPSS in 1995, and now serves as Executive VP of SYSTAT Software Inc. in Chicago. His research focuses on scientific visualization and statistical...
  
  
• Wilks, Samuel S.
  Samuel S. Wilks
  Samuel Stanley Wilks was an American mathematician and academic who played an important role in the development of mathematical statistics, especially in regard to practical applications....
  
   (1906–1964)
• Willcox, Walter Francis
  Walter Francis Willcox
  Walter Francis Willcox, Ph.D., LL.D. was an American statistician. He was born in Reading, Massachusetts to William Henry Willcox and Anne Holmes Goodenow. He was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1880; Amherst College in 1884 with an A.B. and in 1888 received and A.M. degree from...
  
  
• Wilson, Edwin Bidwell
  Edwin Bidwell Wilson
  Edwin Bidwell Wilson was an American mathematician and polymath. He was the sole protégé of Yale's physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to MIT economist Paul Samuelson. He received his AB from Harvard College in 1899 and his PhD from Yale University in 1901, working under Gibbs.E.B...
  
   (1879–1964)
• Wilson, Harold
  Harold Wilson
  James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC was a British Labour Member of Parliament, Leader of the Labour Party. He was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s, winning four general elections, including a minority government after the...
  
  
• Wishart, John
  John Wishart (statistician)
  John Wishart was a Scottish mathematician and agricultural statistician.He worked successively at University College London with Karl Pearson, at Rothamsted Experimental Station with Ronald Fisher, and then as a reader in statistics in the University of Cambridge where he became the first...
  
   (1898–1956)
• Wissot, Mike
  Mike Wissot
  Mike Wissot is a political pollster and market research specialist. His firm, SymAction Communications, has offices in Los Angeles, CA and Washington, DC. Wissot is an adjunct professor of communication at Pepperdine University. He often appears as a political analyst for KABC talk radio and...
  
  
• Wold, Herman
  Herman Wold
  Herman Ole Andreas Wold was a Norwegian-born econometrician and statistician who had a long career in Sweden...
  
   (1908–1992)
• Wolfowitz, Jacob
  Jacob Wolfowitz
  Jacob Wolfowitz was a Polish-born American statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was the father of former Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group President Paul Wolfowitz....
  
   (1910–1981)
• Wood, George Henry
  George Henry Wood (statistician)
  George Henry Wood was a labour statistician who was a student of and worked with Arthur Bowley. From 1907 he was the Secretary for the Huddersfield and District Woollen Manufacturers and Spinners Association...
  
  
• Woolhouse, Wesley S. B.
  Wesley S. B. Woolhouse
  Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse was an actuary with diverse interests in music theory, the design of steam locomotives, measurements, and many other fields, publishing books in all these fields....
  
  
• Working, Holbrook
  Holbrook Working
  Holbrook Working , a professor of economics and statistics at Stanford University’s FoodResearch Institute, is known for his contributions on hedging, the theory of futures prices – which anticipated the efficient market hypothesis, an early theory of market maker behavior, and the theory of...
  
  
• Wright, Carroll D.
  Carroll D. Wright
  Carroll Davidson Wright was an American statistician.Wright was born at Dunbarton, New Hampshire. He began to study law in 1860, but in 1862 enlisted as a private in the 14th New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment to fight the American Civil War...
  
  
• Wright, Elizur
  Elizur Wright
  Elizur Wright was an American mathematician and abolitionist. He is sometimes described as the "father of life insurance" for his pioneering work on actuarial tables...
  
  
• Wright, Sewall
  Sewall Wright
  Sewall Green Wright was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. With R. A. Fisher and J.B.S. Haldane, he was a founder of theoretical population genetics. He is the discoverer of the inbreeding coefficient and of...
  
  
• Wrigley, E. A.
  E. A. Wrigley
  Sir Edward Anthony Wrigley, , commonly known as Tony Wrigley, is a historical demographer. Wrigley and Peter Laslett co-founded the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure in 1964....
  
  
• Wu, Jeff C. F.
  C.F. Jeff Wu
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• Yates, Frank
  Frank Yates
  Frank Yates FRS was one of the pioneers of 20th century statistics.He was born in Manchester. Yates was the eldest of five children, and the only boy, born to Edith and Percy Yates. His father was a seed merchant. He attended Wadham House, a private school, before gaining a scholarship to Clifton...
  
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• Young, Allyn Abbott
  Allyn Abbott Young
  Allyn Abbott Young was a celebrated American economist. He was born into a middle-class family in Kenton, Ohio on September 19, 1876 and died aged 52 in London on March 7, 1929, his life cut short by pneumonia during an influenza epidemic. He was then at the height of his intellectual powers and...
  
  
• Young, Arthur (1741–1820)
• Young, Hilton
• Yule, G. Udny
  Udny Yule
  George Udny Yule FRS , usually known as Udny Yule, was a British statistician, born at Beech Hill, a house in Morham near Haddington, Scotland and died in Cambridge, England. His father, also George Udny Yule, and a nephew, were knighted. His uncle was the noted orientalist Sir Henry Yule...
  
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• Zaman, Arif
  Arif Zaman
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• Zarnowitz, Victor
  Victor Zarnowitz
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• Zellner, Arnold
  Arnold Zellner
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• Zhaohuan, Zhang
  Zhang Zhaohuan
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• Zipf, George Kingsley (1902–1950)

See also

• List of actuaries
• List of mathematical probabilists
• List of mathematicians
• Founders of statistics
  Founders of statistics
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