John Ernst Freund (August 6, 1921 – August 14, 2004) was a prominent author of university level textbooks on
statistics
Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...
and a mathematics professor at
Arizona State University
Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...
. Born in Berlin, Germany, he emigrated to
Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s. He studied at the
University of London and at the
University of California at Los Angeles, from which he received his bachelor's degree. He did graduate work at
Columbia University and the
University of Pittsburgh, from which he received his doctorate in 1952.
In 1960 he was elected as a
Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
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1921 births
2004 deaths
American statisticians
German emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of Pittsburgh alumni
Arizona State University faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association