Maurice Bartlett

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Maurice Stevenson Bartlett , often quoted as MS Bartlett, (born June 18, 1910 in Chiswick , London , † January 8, 2002 in Exmouth , Devon ) was a British statistician .

Life

Bartlett, who came from a humble background, studied mathematics from 1929 on a scholarship at Queens College, Cambridge University . He has heard from John Wishart (in statistics), Arthur Eddington and Paul Dirac , among others . He wrote several papers with Wishart and in 1933 he joined Egon Pearson 's group of statisticians at University College London , where Jerzy Neyman , Ronald A. Fisher (with whom he worked on statistical inference), JBS Haldane were. He was an assistant lecturer there in 1933/34. In 1934 he became a statistician in the agricultural research station of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) in Jealott's Hill, where, in addition to theoretical statistics and genetics, he also dealt with intelligence measurements. In 1938 he was back at Cambridge University as a lecturer in mathematics, which he stayed until 1947. During World War II he worked in rocket research, where David George Kendall became his student during this time . After the war he was back in Cambridge, where he dealt with stochastic processes and time series analysis. In 1947 he became the first professor of mathematical statistics at the University of Manchester , where he worked, among other things, on epidemiology . In 1960 he became Professor of Statistics at University College London and from 1967 Professor of Biomathematics at Oxford University , where he retired in 1975. Even afterwards he remained active in research and was, among other things, several times at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University .

Bartlett dealt with mathematical statistics as well as statistical methods and applications, especially data analysis (analysis of time series and spatial patterns), statistical inference and multivariate statistics . A statistical test named after him ( Bartlett test , 1937) examines samples to determine whether they have the same variance . He also dealt with statistics of population growth, epidemics and in psychology. He wrote an early textbook on stochastic processes in 1955 (after a project on a textbook with Moyal failed) and developed an operator formalism for Markov processes .

He was married to Sheila Lockwood (nee Chapman) from 1957 until her death in 1998, with whom he had a daughter. In 1933 he received the Rayleigh Prize , in 1952 the Guy Medal in silver and in 1969 the gold medal of the Royal Statistical Society , of which he was President in 1966. Since 1961 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society . 1959/1960 he was President of the Manchester Statistical Society. He had been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1993 and received honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago (1966) and the University of Hull (1976). In 1980 he became an honorary member of the International Statistical Institute. In 1971 he received the Weldon Medal from Oxford University.

In 1962 he gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( Statistical estimation of density functions ).

Fonts

  • An Introduction to Stochastic Processes - with special reference to methods and applications, Cambridge University Press, 1955, ISBN 0-521-04116-3
  • Stochastic Population Models in Ecology and Epidemiology, London, Methuen, 1960, ISBN 0-416-52330-7
  • Essays in Probability and Statistics, London, Methuen 1962, ISBN 0-416-64880-0
  • Probability, Statistics and Time, London, Chapman and Hall, 1975, ISBN 0-412-14150-7
  • The Statistical Analysis of Spatial Pattern, London, Chapman and Hall 1976, ISBN 0-412-14290-2
  • Selected Papers of MS Bartlett, 3 volumes, edited by RG Stanton, ED Johnson, DS Meek. Winnipeg, Charles Babbage Research Center, 1989
  • Chance and Change, in J. Gani (editor) The making of statisticans , Springer 1982, pp. 41–60 (autobiographical)
  • Interview with Ingram Olkin, Statistical Science, Vol. 4, 1989, p. 151

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References

  1. ^ Obituary by Whittle in the Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society, in the Independent 2002 he stated Scrooby, Nottinghamshire
  2. ^ PDE, Projectile Development Establishment, in Wales and London
personal data
SURNAME Bartlett, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartlett, Maurice Stevenson; Bartlett, MS
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British statistician
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Chiswick , London
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2002
Place of death Exmouth , Devon