John E. Freund

John Ernst Freund
Portrait of John E. Freund
Born	(1921-08-06)August 6, 1921 Berlin, Germany
Died	August 14, 2004(2004-08-14) (aged 83) Paradise Valley, Arizona, USA
Occupation(s)	Author of statistics textbooks, mathematics professor
Years active	1952 – 2004

John Ernst Freund (August 6, 1921 – August 14, 2004) was a prominent author of university level textbooks on statistics and a mathematics professor at Arizona State University. Born in Berlin, Germany, he emigrated to 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.

Selected publications

• Freund, John E. (1952). Some Methods of Estimating Prior Probabilities from Heterogeneous Populations. University of Pittsburgh (dissertation).
• Freund, John E. (1962). Mathematical statistics. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. (now Miller, Irwin, Marylees Miller, John E. Freund, and John E. Freund. 2014. John E. Freund's mathematical statistics with applications. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Education. Eighth edition)
• Freund, J. E., & Simon, G. A. (1967). Modern elementary statistics. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

Further reading

• "Maxine Freund". The Arizona Republic. December 28, 2014.