E. J. G. Pitman
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Edwin James George Pitman (born 1897 in Melbourne, died 1993 in Kingston) was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Tasmania from 1926 to 1962, and visiting lecturer and professor at several universities in the United States, England and Australia.
He got his master degree 1923 from Melbourne University. In 1958 he was President of the Australian Mathematical Society. The Statistical Society of Australia, Inc. created the Pitman Medal in 1978, which also was awarded to Pitman himself.
One of the most influential statisticians of the twentieth century, he was noted in statistical theory for the Pitman-Koopman-Darmois theorem concerning exponential families of probability distributions.
In applied statistics, he is remembered primarily as the originator of the Pitman permutation test.
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[edit] Trivia
- For "the sum of squares of deviations from the mean," he coined the term squariance; for "the logarithm of the likelihood" he coined the term loglihood. However, neither of these terms caught on.
[edit] Published works (selected)
- Sufficient statistics and intrinsic accuracy, Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 32, (1936), 567-579.
- Significance tests which may be applied to samples from any populations. Suppl.J .R. Statist. Soc. 4, (1937), 119-130.
- Significance tests which may be applied to samples from any populations. II. The correlation coefficient test. Suppl. J. R. Statist. Soc. 4, (1937), 225-232.
- Significance tests which may be applied to samples from any populations. III. The analysis of variance test. Biometrika 29, (1938), 322-335.
- The estimation of the location and scale parameters of a continuous population of any given form, Biometrika 30, (1939) 391-421.
- Tests of hypotheses concerning location and scale parameters. Biometrika 31, (1939) 200-215.
- Statistics and science. J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 25, (1957), 322-330.
- Some remarks on statistical inference. Proc. Int. Res. Seminar, Berkeley (Bernoulli-Bayes-Laplace Anniversary Volume), (1965), 209-216. New York: Springer-Verlag.
[edit] Autobiography
Pitman contributed a chapter, "Reminiscences of a mathematician who strayed into statistics", to the volume
- Joseph M. Gani (ed.) (1982) The Making of Statisticians, New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-90684-3
