Anders Hjorth Hald (3 July 1913 – 11 November 2007) was a Danish

statistician A statistician is a person who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, and statisticians may wor ...

. He was a professor at the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in ...

from 1960 to 1982. While a professor, he did research in industrial quality control and other areas, and also authored textbooks. After retirement, he made important contributions to the

history of statistics Statistics, in the modern sense of the word, began evolving in the 18th century in response to the novel needs of industrializing sovereign states. In early times, the meaning was restricted to information about states, particularly demographics ...

. Hald was a Fellow of the

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, a Member of the

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, a Member of the

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, an Honorary Fellow of the

Royal Statistical Society The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is an established statistical society. It has three main roles: a British learned society for statistics, a professional body for statisticians and a charity which promotes statistics for the public good. ...

, and a Corresponding Fellow of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established i ...

Bibliography

* * * * * * * " T. N. Thiele's contributions to statistics", ''

International Statistical Review The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians. It was founded in 1885, although there had been international statistical congresses since 1853. The institute has about 4,000 elected members from gov ...

'', 49, number 1 (1981): 1–20. (Reprinted in ) * "The early history of the

cumulant In probability theory and statistics, the cumulants of a probability distribution are a set of quantities that provide an alternative to the '' moments'' of the distribution. Any two probability distributions whose moments are identical will ha ...

s and the

Gram–Charlier series The Gram–Charlier A series (named in honor of Jørgen Pedersen Gram and Carl Charlier), and the Edgeworth series (named in honor of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth) are series that approximate a probability distribution in terms of its cumulants. The ser ...

", ''

'', 68, number 2 (2000): 137–153. (Reprinted in )

In Danish

* ''Statistiske Metoder'', 1949 * ''Statistisk Kvalitetskontrol'', 1954 * ''Statistiske Metoder i Arbejdsstudierteknikken'', 1955 * ''Elementær Lærebog i Statistisk Kvalitetskontrol'', 1956

References

* ''

Kraks Blå Bog ''Kraks Blå Bog'' () is a Danish biographical dictionary. According to the publisher, it only contains autobiographies provided by the subjects themselves. The first edition was published in 1910 by Ove Krak and included 3,000 "life stories",''Kr ...

1984'' * There is an obituary by Neils Keiding at
''IMS Bulletin'' 37, issue 1 (2008)
p. 12. * The Royal Society of Edinburgh has an obituary, written by David Finney, at
ANDERS H. HALD

External links

* There is a photograph at Anders Hald
on th

page. *There is a bibliography of Hald's writings on the history of statistics at Anders Hald (1913–2007): Writings on the History of Probability and Statistics
in th

1913 births 2007 deaths Danish mathematicians 20th-century American mathematicians Danish statisticians 20th-century Danish historians Danish historians of mathematics Fellows of the American Statistical Association {{Statistician-stub