Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company, which was the forerunner of the Computer Tabulating Recording Company—later International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM.
Statisticians in History
Frederick L. Hoffman
The seventh president of the ASA, Frederick Ludwig Hoffman investigated, studied, and recorded details about subjects such as safety and health conditions of industry workers, especially that of miners.
Howard Wainer
Howard Wainer’s Visual Revelations column—appearing in CHANCE magazine—is arguably the longest-running serial publication in the history of statistics: 25+ years of delving into the core events of the time, all from the point of view of a razor-sharp, uncompromising, and greatly responsible statistician.
Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl is a Turing Award Winner, and author of “The Book of Why,” which has been described as the democratization of causal inference.
Sharon Lohr
Sharon Lohr became a statistician because she liked math, but did not want to be restricted to one narrow area of scholarship. In 2014, she became the first woman to give the Deming Lecture.
Martha Aliaga
When asked about Martha Aliaga, the word that comes to mind for most people is “teacher.” It seems everyone who knew her has a story to tell illustrating her special charisma and passion for teaching.
Leslie Kish
Ivan Fellegi reflects on the extraordinary life and accomplishments of Leslie Kish, “a force of nature,” philosopher of all things statistical, and so much more.
Isobel Loutit
Isobel Loutit was a highly successful career statistician in an environment that was then almost exclusively a man’s world. David Bellhouse recounts her story.
Jerzy Neyman
Jerzy Neyman, one of the principal architects of modern statistics, was Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. With Neyman’s passing in 1981, history closed a chapter on the early development of our field.
Oscar Kempthorne
Kempthorne, published “Design and Analysis of Experiments” in 1952—the first comprehensive treatment of experimental design at a “theoretical” level intended for graduate studies and research in this field.