Statisticians in History
Here you will find biographies on some of the most accomplished statisticians in history.
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 Richard L. Anderson  Arlene Sandra Ash (PDF)  Gilbert Beebe (PDF)  David H. Blackwell |
 Kimiko Bowman (PDF)  Ada Byron  William G. Cochran  Columbus Clark Cockerham (PDF) |
 William Cogswell (PDF)  Jerome Cornfield  Gertrude M. Cox  Florence N. David |
 W. Edwards Deming  Louis Israel Dublin (PDF)  Ivan Fellegi  Joseph Felt |
 Stephen Fienberg  R.A. Fisher  Richard Fletcher  Irving J. Good |
 Nancy M Gordon  Mary Gray  Samuel W. Greenhouse  Morris Hansen |
 Brian Harris-Kojetin  H. O. Hartley (PDF)  Irene Hess (PDF)  Frederick L. Hoffman |
 Herman Hollerith  Harol Hotelling  Stuart Hunter  Edward Jarvis |
 Harold Jeffreys  Oscar Kempthorne  Jack Carol Kiefer (PDF)  Charles Kincannon |
 Leslie Kish  Jack Chao-sheng Lee (PDF)  Rensis Likert  Rod Little |
 Isobel Loutit  Margaret Martin  Paul Dixon Minton (PDF)  Frederick Mosteller |
 Susan A. Murphy  Jerzy Neyman  Florence Nightingale  Janet Norwood |
 Mollie Orshansky (PDF)  Oliver Peabody  Karl Pearson  Egon S. Pearson (PDF) |
 Annie Mae Randall  Calyampudi R. Rao  Gladys H. Reynolds (PDF)  Dorothy P. Rice (PDF) |
 Stuart Arthur Rice  Fritz Scheuren  Walter A. Shewhart  Monroe Sirken |
 Wray Jackson Smith (PDF)  George W. Snedecor (PDF)  Terry Speed  Joseph Steinberg |
 Sandra Stinnett  Judith Tanur  John W. Tukey  U. Michigan Dept. of Statistics |
 Helen M. Walker  Francis Amasa Walker  Joe Ward  Samuel S. Wilks (PDF) |
 Walter Willcox  Jack Wolfowitz  William J. Youden (PDF)  Doug Zahn |
 Arnold Zellner |
