William Palin Elderton

William Palin Elderton

Sir William Palin Elderton KBE PhD (Oslo) (1877-1962) was a British actuary who served as president of the Institute of Actuaries (1932-1934). Elderton also had a very long association with the statistical journal Biometrika. In its early days he published several article and in 1935 he became chairman of the Biometrika Trust.

In 1900 when he was training to be an actuary Elderton met Karl Pearson and was drawn into the University College statistical group. In 1902 Elderton computed the first tables of Pearson's chi-square and in 1907 he published an exposition of the Pearson curves for actuaries. His sister Ethel M. Elderton worked for Pearson, and together the Eldertons wrote an introduction to the new ideas in statistics.

Books

* W. Palin Elderton (1907) "Frequency-Curves and Correlation". London: Layton.

* W. Palin Elderton and Ethel M. Elderton (1909) "Primer of Statistics". London: A&C Black Ltd.

* W. Palin Elderton and Richard C. Fippard (1914)"The Construction of Mortality and Sickness Tables : a Primer". London : A. & C. Black.

Obituaries

* [http://www.actuaries.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/27269/0193-0195.pdf William P. Elderton FIA; CBE; KBE. TFA, 28 (1962-1964) p. 193-195] .

* [http://www.actuaries.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/25807/0245-0252.pdf William P. Elderton FIA; CBE; KBE. JIA, 88 (1962) p. 245-251] .

* E. S. Pearson William Palin Elderton (1877-1962), Biometrika, 49, (1962), 297-303.

* F. A. A. Menzler Sir William Palin Elderton, 1877-1962, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), Vol. 125, No. 4 (1962), pp. 669-672


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