Henry Daniels
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Henry Ellis Daniels FRS[1] (2 October 1912 – 16 April 2000)[2] was a British statistician. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society (1974–1975), and was awarded its Guy Medal in Gold in 1984, following a Silver medal in 1947. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1980. The Parry-Daniels map is named after him (together with the English mathematician Bill Parry).[3][4]
His family was Jewish, of Russian (partly Polish and partly Lithuanian) origin.[5]
Henry graduated from the University of Edinburgh and went on to study at Clare College, Cambridge.[2] In 1957, he became the first "Professor of Mathematical Statistics" at the University of Birmingham.[2]
Selected publications by Daniels [edit]
- Daniels, H. E. (1954). "Saddlepoint Approximations in Statistics". The Annals of Mathematical Statistics 25 (4): 631. doi:10.1214/aoms/1177728652.
- Daniels, H. E. (1975). "Statistics in Universities--A Personal View". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 138 (1): 1–17. doi:10.2307/2345246.
References [edit]
- ^ Cox, D. (2003). "Henry Ellis Daniels. 2 October 1912 - 16 April 2000". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 49: 133. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2003.0008.
- ^ a b c "Obituaries: Henry Daniels, Edwin J. Redfern". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series D (The Statistician) 50 (2): 213–215. 2001. doi:10.1111/1467-9884.00273.
- ^ Whittle, P. (1993). "A Conversation with Henry Daniels". Statistical Science 8 (3): 342–353. doi:10.1214/ss/1177010911.
- ^ Henry Daniels at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74126.
External links [edit]
- Guardian: Obituary
- Papers and biographical sketch
- Photograph
- The History of the Cambridge Statistical Laboratory
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| Preceded by D. J. Finney |
President of the Royal Statistical Society 1974–1975 |
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