Donald Allan Darling
Donald Allan Darling (born May 4, 1915 in Los Angeles , California - † June 24, 2014 ) was an American statistician .
Life
He is known for the Anderson-Darling test (a statistical test that can be used to determine whether the frequency distribution of the data in a sample deviates from a given hypothetical probability distribution ), which he had described in 1952 with Theodore Wilbur Anderson .
In 1934 Darling enrolled in the mathematics department of the University of California at Los Angeles , where he received his degree in 1939. In 1940 he became a meteorologist for Pan American Airways and from 1942 to 1946, during World War II , he headed the statistics department of the Air Force Weather Research Project .
In the meantime he enrolled in the Ph.D. course at the California Institute of Technology in 1943 , where he wrote the dissertation Continuous Stochastic Processes in 1947, under the direction of Morgan Ward . Immediately afterwards, in 1947, he became a researcher at Cornell University , and in 1948 he became an assistant professor at Rutgers University . In 1949 he went to the University of Michigan , where he later became a professor. This university dedicated a chair to him in 2002.
In 1958 he was a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . From 1958 to 1961 it was associated editor of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics .
In 1967 he went to the University of California , where he had been professor emeritus since 1982 .
items
- with Theodore Wilbur Anderson : Asymptotic theory of certain "goodness-of-fit" criteria based on stochastic processes . In: Annals of Mathematical Statistics. Volume 23, 1952, pp. 193-212.
- with Arnold JFSiegert : The First Passage Problem for a Continuous Markov Process. In: The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. Volume 24, No. 4, 1953
- On the Asymptotic Distribution of Watson's Statistic. In: Annals of Statistics. 1983
Web links
- Mathematics Genealogy Project: http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=7616
- www.jstor.org [1] , [2] , [3]
- University of Michigan: PDF
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Darling, Donald Allan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American statistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 2014 |