Mathematician:Edwin James George Pitman
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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 Bernard Osgood Koopman and Georges Darmois) (also known as the Koopman-Pitman-Darmois Theorem or Pitman-Koopman Theorem)
Coined the terms:
Publications
- 1979: Some Basic Theory for Statistical Inference
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Edwin James George Pitman": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Pitman, Edwin James George (1897-1993)