Ingram Olkin, Mike Free, Stu Hunter, and Marvin Kastenbaum recall contacts with Gertrude Cox.
statisticians in history
Edward Jarvis
Edward Jarvis, the third president of the American Statistical Association, was born January 9, 1803, in Concord, Massachusetts, as the fourth of seven children born to Deacon Francis and Millicent (Hosmer) Jarvis.
Frederick Mosteller
Charles Frederick Mosteller was one of the towering figures in twentieth-century statistics.
Arnold Zellner
Kathy Morrissey interviewed Arnold to learn more about him as a person: his childhood, early career, and interests. This is what she found.
C.R. Rao Receives National Medal of Science
by Megan Kruse Calyampudi Radhakrishna (C.R.) Rao, Eberly Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Director of the Center for Multivariate Analysis at Pennsylvania State University, was honored at the White House with the National Medal of Science on June 13, 2002. Rao earned an M.A. in Mathematics at Andhra University, another M.A. in Statistics at […]
John W. Tukey
As one of the most influential statisticians of the last 50 years, John Wilder Tukey developed many important tools of modern statistics and introduced concepts that were central to the creation of today’s telecommunications technologies. In addition to his formidable research achievements,