Anders Hald

Anders Hald (3 July 1913 – 11 November 2007) was a Danish statistician who made contributions to the history of statistics. He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1960 to 1982.

Bibliography

* "A History of Parametric Statistical Inference from Bernoulli to Fisher, 1713-1935" Springer 2006 [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0387464085 Amazon]
* "A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750", Wiley, ISBN 0-471-47129-1 (paperback, 2003) [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0471502308 Amazon]
* "A History of Mathematical Statistics from 1750 to 1930", Wiley, 1998 [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0471179124 Amazon]
* "Statistical Theory with Engineering Applications", 1952
* "Statistical Theory of Sampling Inspection by Attributes", part I and part II
* "Statistical Tables and Formulas", 1952

In Danish

* "Statistiske Metoder", 1949
* "Statistisk Kvalitetskontrol", 1954
* "Statistiske Metoder i Arbejdsstudierteknikken", 1955
* "Elementær Lærebog i Statistisk Kvalitetskontrol", 1956

References

* Kraks Blå Bog 1984

External links

There is a photograph at
* [http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/people/hald.gifAnders Hald] on the [http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/people/welcome.htm Portraits of Statisticians] page.

There is an obituary by Neils Keiding at
* [http://www.imstat.org/bulletin/Bulletin37_1.pdf IMS Bulletin 31, (2008), issue 1, p. 12]

Hald was a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and there is an obituary by David Finney at
* [http://www.rse.org.uk/fellowship/obits/obits_alpha/hald_anders.pdf ANDERS H. HALD]

There is a bibliography of Hald's wrtings on the history of statistics at
* [http://www.jehps.net/juin2008/Aldrich.pdf Anders Hald (1913-2007): Writings on the History of Probability and Statistics] in the [http://www.jehps.net/indexang.html Electronic Journal for History of Probability and Statistics] .