Mathematician:Walter Laws Smith
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Mathematician
British-born American mathematician known for his contributions to applied probability theory.
Nationality
American of English origin
History
- Born: November 12, 1926 in London, England
- Died: 6 March 2023 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Publications
- 1953: The superimposition of several strictly periodic sequences of events (Biometrika pp. 1 – 11) (with D.R. Cox) www.jstor.org/stable/2333090
- 1953: A direct proof of a fundamental theorem of renewal theory (Skandinavisk Aktuartidsskrift Vol. 36(?))
- 1954: On the superposition of renewal processes (Biometrika Vol. 41: pp. 91 – 99) (with D.R. Cox) www.jstor.org/stable/2333008
- 1957: A note on truncation and sufficient statistics (Ann. Math. Stat. Vol. 28: pp. 247 – 252)
- 1957: On the distribution of Tribolium confusum in a container (Biometrika Vol. 44: pp. 328 – 335) (with D.R. Cox) www.jstor.org/stable/2332865
- 1958: Renewal theory and its ramifications (J.R. Stat. Soc. Ser. B Vol. 20: pp. 243 – 302) www.jstor.org/stable/2983891
- 1961: Queues (with D.R. Cox)
- 1964: On the elementary renewal theorem for non-identically distributed variables (Pacific J. Math. Vol. 14: pp. 673 – 699)
- 1965: Congestion Theory
- 1968: Necessary conditions for almost sure extinction of a branching process with random environment (Ann. Math. Stat. Vol. 39(?): pp. 2136 – 2140)
- 1971: Branching processes in Markovian environments (Duke Math. J. Vol. 38: pp. 749 – 763) (with William E. Wilkinson)
- 1978: Harold Hotelling 1895–1973 (Annals of Statistics Vol. 6(6): pp. 1173 – 1183)
- 1986: On transient regenerative processes (Journal of Applied Probability Vol. 23: pp. 52 – 70) (with E. Murphree)
Also known as
Usually known as Wally Smith.