Mathematician:Edwin James George Pitman

Mathematician
Australian mathematician who made significant contributions to statistics and probability theory.

Nationality
Australian

History

 * Born: 29 October 1897 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
 * Died: 21 July 1993 in Kingston, Tasmania, Australia

Theorems and Definitions

 * Pitman Permutation Test
 * Pitman Nearness
 * Pitman Efficiency
 * Pitman-Koopman-Darmois Theorem (with and ) (also known as the Koopman-Pitman-Darmois Theorem or Pitman-Koopman Theorem)

Coined the terms:


 * Loglihood
 * Squariance

Publications

 * 1979: Some Basic Theory for Statistical Inference