Thiele Pioneer in Statistics [Hardcover]

Thorvald Nicolai Thiele was a brilliant Danish researcher of the 19th Century. He was a professor of Astronomy and founder of Hafnia, the first Danish private insurance company. Thiele worked in astronomy, mathematics, actuarial science and statistics, his most spectacular contributions were in the latter two areas, where his published work was far ahead of his time.Thiele: Pioneer in Statisticsalso contains three papers, written by A. Hald and S.L. Lauritzen which describes Thiele's statistical work in modern terms and puts them into an historical perspective. The texts are supplemented with introductory material on Thiele's life and other interests, as well as with explanatory comments from the translator in the form of footnotes.

1. Introduction to Thiele,S. L. Lauritzen
2. On the application of the method of least squares to some cases, in which a combination of certain types of inhomogeneous random sources of errors gives these a 'systematic' character,T. N. Thiele
3. Time series analysis in 1880: a discussion of contributions made by T. N. Thiele,S. L. Lauritzen
4. The general theory of observations: calculus of probability and the method of least squares,T. N. Thiele
5. T. N. Thiele's contributions to statistics,A. Hald
6. On the halfinvariants in the theory of observations,T. N. Thiele
7. The early history of cumulants and the Gram-Charlier series,A. Hald
8. Epilogue,S. L. Lauritzen
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