Anders Hald

Anders Hald
Born	July 3, 1913(1913-07-03)
Died	November 11, 2007(2007-11-11) (aged 94)
Nationality	Danish
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	University of Copenhagen

Anders Hald (3 July 1913 – 11 November 2007) was a Danish statistician who made contributions to the history of statistics. He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1960 to 1982.

Bibliography

• A History of Parametric Statistical Inference from Bernoulli to Fisher, 1713–1935. New York: Springer. 2007. ISBN 9780387464084. 
• A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. 2003. ISBN 0471471291. 
• A History of Mathematical Statistics from 1750 to 1930. New York: Wiley. 1998. ISBN 0471179124. 
• Statistical theory of sampling inspection by attributes. London: Academic Press. 1981. ISBN 0123183502. 
• Statistical Theory with Engineering Applications. New York: Wiley. 1952. 
• Statistical Tables and Formulas. New York: Wiley. 1952. 

• Anders Hald. "T. N. Thiele's contributions to statistics" International Statistical Review volume 49, (1981), number 1: 1–20. (Reprinted in Steffen L. Lauritzen, ed (2002). Thiele: Pioneer in Statistics. Oxford U. P.. )
• Anders Hald. "The early history of the cumulants and the Gram–Charlier series" International Statistical Review volume 68 (2000), number 2,´: 137–153. (Reprinted in Steffen L. Lauritzen, ed (2002). Thiele: Pioneer in Statistics. Oxford U. P.. )

In Danish

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

References

• Kraks Blå Bog 1984

External links

There is a photograph at

• Anders Hald on the Portraits of Statisticians page.

There is an obituary by Neils Keiding at

• IMS Bulletin 31, (2008), issue 1, p. 12

Hald was a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and there is an obituary by David Finney at

• ANDERS H. HALD

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 the Electronic Journal for History of Probability and Statistics.