Ene–Margit Tiit (born 22 April 1934 in

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of ...

) is an Estonian mathematician and statistician who became the founding president of the Estonian Statistical Society.

Early life and education

Tiit is the daughter of mathematician and was born in

on 22 April 1934. She went to a high school in

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

and completed her undergraduate studies in 1957 at the University of Tartu, then called Tartu State University. She remained at the same university for her doctoral work, defending a dissertation on ''Ridade ümberjärjestamisest'' (''On rearrangements of series'') in 1963 with Gunnar Kangro as her doctoral supervisor.

Career

After briefly working at the Estonian Agricultural Academy before her doctorate, Tiit returned to the University of Tartu as a faculty member. There, the topics of her research included "mathematical statistics, population sciences, sociology and anthropology". She founded the Department of Mathematical Statistics there, and became its first regular professor. The Estonian Statistical Society was founded in September 1992, soon after the fall of the Soviet Union, and Tiit became its first president. She retired in 1999, but continued to work as a senior methodologist for Statistics Estonia.

Recognition

In 1995 the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin yliopisto, sv, Helsingfors universitet, abbreviated UH) is a public research university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish ''Åbo'') in 1640 as the ...

gave Tiit an honorary doctorate. She is also a fourth class member of the

Order of the White Star The Order of the White Star ( et, Valgetähe teenetemärk; french: Ordre de l'Etoile Blanche) was instituted in 1936. The Order of the White Star is bestowed on Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic ...

. She is an Elected Member of the

International Statistical Institute 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 ...

References

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