Mathematician:Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran

Mathematician

Australian statistician who established some significant results in probability.

The Moran medal was named in his honour.

Nationality

Australian

History

• Born: July 14, 1917, King's Cross, Sydney, Australia
• Died: September 19, 1988, Canberra, Australia

Theorems and Definitions

• Moran's I
• Moran Process

Publications

• 1950: Notes on Continuous Stochastic Phenomena
• 1959: The Theory of Storage (translated into Russian, 1963; Czech, 1967)
• 1962: The Statistical Processes of Evolutionary Theory
• 1963: Geometrical probability (with M.G. Kendall)
• 1967: An Introduction to Probability Theory (with M.G. Kendall)

Also known as

Usually known to those who knew him as Pat Moran.