Carl-Erik Quensel (9 October 1907 – 10 April 1977) was a
Swedish
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statistician
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and
demographer, specializing in
population statistics,
statistical distribution theory and
biostatistics
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.
Biography
Early life
Carl-Erik Quensel was born in
Malmö,
Sweden
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on 9 October 1907, the son of Conrad and Ester Quensel.
.
[Svensk biografisk handbok, 1977, p.830]
Scientific career
In 1935 Qunsel earned a
licentiate degree from the Department of Statistics at
Lund University, followed by a PhD degree in 1938. In 1941, he was appointed professor of
Statistics
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at
Lund University
.
Quensel was an elected member of the
International Statistical Institute
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. He served as a Swedish delegate to the
United Nations Population committee.
[Kulldorff, 1978]
Major scientific work
A Method of Determining the Regression Curve When the Marginal Distribution is of the Normal Logarithmic Type, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 7:196-201, 1936.
Second moment and of the Correlation Coefficient in Samples from Populations of Type A, The Statistical Institute at the University of Lund. Lund, C. W. K. Gleerup/Leipzig, Otto Harrassowitz, 1938.
Lärobok i den teoretiska statistikens grunder, Lund 1944.
Befolkningsframskrivningar för Hälsingborgs stad 1945 – 1975, Lund, 1949.
Studenternas utbildningsval, tillsammans med Bo Israelsson, Lund, 1958.
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Swedish statisticians
Academic staff of Lund University
Lund University alumni
Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
1907 births
1977 deaths