Some Historical Statistical Scientists Outside of Europe and North America
Some historical statistical scientists outside of Europe and North America
Selection criteria:
• Not living.
• Spent most of their career outside of Europe, USA or Canada.
• Of historical importance.
• Nationalities are by the current English language name of the country of origin.
Africa
South Africa
Danie Krige (1919-2013)
Invented the spatial estimation method called kriging.
https://www.nap.edu/read/21785/chapter/35
Herbert Sichel (1915–1995)
Pioneer in operations research and geostatistics. Worked on the generalized inverse Gaussian distribution.
https://prabook.com/web/herbert.sichel/2347752
Asia
China
Pau-Lu Hsu (1910-1970)
Created the first curriculum in probability and statistics in China.
https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdfview_1/euclid.ss/1346849948
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hsu/
Xiru Chen (1934-2005)
First statistician elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Mostly worked in asymptotics.
http://www3.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/j18n2/18-2.html
India
Anil Bhattacharya (1915-1996)
https://web.archive.org/web/20170124233611/http://sankhya.isical.ac.in/search/57a1/57a10
17.pdf
Vasant S. Huzurbazar (1919-1991)
http://insaindia.res.in/BM/BM20_9504.pdf
J. K. Ghosh (1937-2017)
https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.imsc/1209398456
V. M. Joshi (1914-1996)
https://ssc.ca/en/publications/ssc-liaison/vol-11-1-february-1997pp.24-27
P. C. Mahalanobis (1893-1972)
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mahalanobis/
Ashok Rudra (1996). Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis: A Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-563679-6. Jyotiprasad Medhi (1924-2017)
http://medhi.org/misc/JMedhi-Memorial-eBook.pdf
Iraq
(Abu) Al-Kindi (801-873)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1198/tas.2011.10191
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Kindi/
Israel
K. Ruben Gabriel (1929-2003)
http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=1450
Gad Nathan (1935-2012)
Esther Samuel-Cahn (1933-2015)
https://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashsad/AsterSamuel/)
Japan
Hirotogu Akaike (1927-2009)
https://www.ism.ac.jp/akaikememorial/index-e.html
https://howelltongblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/obituary-of-professor-hirotugu-akaike_28.html
Findley, David F.; Parzen, Emanuel (1995), "A conversation with Hirotugu Akaike", Statistical Science, 10 (1): 104–117, doi:10.1214/ss/1177010133
Kaoru Ishikawa (1915-1989)
http://www.juse.jp/ishikawa/e/man
Kiyosi Ito (1915-2008)
https://www.ams.org/notices/200706/tx070600744p.pdf
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ito/
Motosaburo Masuyama (1912-2005)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060307084253/http://www.tibs.org/pdf/news-22-4.pdf [p.9]
Genichi Taguchi (1924-2012)
https://asq.org/about-asq/honorary-members/taguchi
Latin America and the Caribbean
Brazil
Barry James (1924-2019)
Created the Statistics program at the Instituto de Matemática Pura eAplicada in Rio de Janeiro.
https://impa.br/en_US/noticias/ex-pesquisador-do-impa-barry-rees-james-morre-nos-eua/
Chile
Pilar Iglesias (1960-2007)
Created the Chilean chapter of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. Worked in Bayesian predictive analysis.
https://www.soche.cl/chjs/volumes/01/01/delPino_Icaza(2010).pdf
Uruguay
Mario Wschebor (1939-2011)
http://www.cmat.edu.uy/~wschebor/
Oceania
Australia
Betty Allan (1905-1952)
First statistician at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (now CSIRO).
Foundation member of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science. Worked on agricultural statistical methods.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/allan-frances-elizabeth-betty-9330
https://csiropedia.csiro.au/allan-frances-elizabeth/
Peter Hall (1951-2016)
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.2017
Delaigle, Aurore; Wand, Matt P. (2016), A Conversation with Peter Hall. Statist. Sci. 31 (2),
275–304.
C. H. Heyde (1939-2008)
Glasserman, Paul; Kou, Steven (2006). A Conversation with Chris Heyde. Statist. Sci., 21
(2): 286–298.
P. A. P. Moran (1917-1988)
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1991.0018
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Moran/
E. J. G. Pitman (1897-1993)
https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/aasmemoirs/pitman.htm
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pitman/
New Zealand
Alastair Scott (1939-2017)
https://imstat.org/2017/07/14/obituary-alastair-scott-1939-2017/