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unusual facts about mathematical statistics



Fiona Margaret Hall

She is the younger sister of the internationally renowned mathematical statistician and probabilist Peter Gavin Hall.

Michel Loève

Michel Loève (January 22, 1907 – February 17, 1979) was a French American probabilist and a mathematical statistician, of Palestinian Jewish origin.

U. Narayan Bhat

He received a B.A. in mathematics (1953) and B.T. in education (1954) from the University of Madras, an M.A. in statistics (1958) from Karnatak University in Dharwar and Ph.D. in Mathematical statistics from the University of Western Australia on the dissertation Some Simple and Bulk Queueing Systems: A Study of Their Transient Behavior (1965).


see also

Gauss–Markov

The Gauss–Markov theorem in mathematical statistics (In this theorem, one does not assume the probability distributions are Gaussian.)

Mir Masoom Ali

In 1966, Dr. Ali, on leave of absence from his government position, completed his second Masters degree in 1967 and a Ph.D. degree in 1969, both in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Toronto in Canada.

Richard D. Gill

In 2006, he moved to the Department of Mathematics at Leiden University, where he became the chair of mathematical statistics.

Richard Peto

His brother Julian Peto, with whom he has published work in mathematical statistics (e.g. on logrank test), is also a distinguished epidemiologist.

Tammy Miller

She is a graduate of Mathematical Statistics and Operational Research (1989) at the University of Exeter.

Thomas N.E. Greville

Greville was a member of the American Mathematical Society; the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; the Society of Actuaries; the Institute of Mathematical Statistics; the American Statistical Association; and the Parapsychological Association.

Warren Ewens

Ewens received a B.A. (1958) and M.A. (1960) in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Melbourne, and a Ph.D. from the Australian National University (1962).