E. J. G. Pitman

E. J. G. Pitman

Edwin James George Pitman (1897 in Melbourne – 1993 in Kingston) was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Tasmania from 1926 to 1962, and a visiting professor at several universities in the United States, Europe and Australia. In applied statistics, he is remembered primarily as the originator of the Pitman permutation test, Pitman nearness and Pitman efficiency.In 1958, he was President of the Australian Mathematical Society. In 1978, the "Statistical Society of Australia, Inc." created the Pitman Medal, which was also awarded to Pitman.

His work "the Pitman measure of closeness" or "Pitman nearness" concerning the exponential families of probability distributions has been studied extensively since 1980s by the leading statisticians such as C. R. Rao and others.

Terminology

* 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.

Pitman's published work (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.

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

External links

* [http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/aasmemoirs/pitman.htm Biography]


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