Theodore Wilbur Anderson
Theodore (Ted) Wilbur Anderson (born June 5, 1918 in Minneapolis , Minnesota - † September 17, 2016 in Stanford , California ) was an American mathematician specializing in statistics and the analysis of multivariate data .
Anderson was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1946 and taught at Columbia University from 1946 until he moved to Stanford University in 1967 . In 1988 he retired . He was the editor of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics from 1950 to 1952 and the director of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1962.
He became known through the Anderson-Darling test , which checks whether a given set of data matches a given probability distribution . He first described this together with Donald Allan Darling in 1952.
Anderson was a member of the Econometric Society (1950), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1974), the National Academy of Sciences (1976) and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences .
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- with Donald Allan Darling: "Asymptotic Theory of Certain" Goodness of Fit "Criteria Based on Stochastic Processes", in: Annals of Mathematical Statistics , 23 (2) / 1952. Institute of Mathematical Statistics, ISSN 0003-4851, pp. 193-212
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literature
- An Introduction to Multivariate Statistical Analysis , Wiley 1958, 3rd edition 2003, ISBN 0-471-360-910
- The statistical analysis of time series , Wiley 1979, ISBN 0-471-029-009
- An Introduction to the Statistical Analysis of Data , Houghton Mifflin 1978, ISBN 0-395-150-450
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| SURNAME | Anderson, Theodore Wilbur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Anderson, Ted Wilbur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American statistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minneapolis , Minnesota |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th September 2016 |
| Place of death | Stanford , California |