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Wilhelm Lexis

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Wilhelm Lexis (17 July 1837, Eschweiler, Germany – 24 August 1914, Göttingen, Germany), full name Wilhelm Hector Richard Albrecht Lexis, Note that the date of death given in the MacTutor biography does not agree with the German sources, including the 1914 obituary by Felix Klein. [1]

24 relations: Adolphe Quetelet, Age adjustment, August Beer, Demography, Economics, Eschweiler, Felix Klein, Göttingen, German Mathematical Society, Judith Tanur, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Lexis ratio, Life expectancy, Mathematical statistics, Mode (statistics), Moving average, Neue Deutsche Biographie, Normal distribution, Plane (geometry), Probable error, Stephen Stigler, Test statistic, Time series, William Kruskal.

Adolphe Quetelet

Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSFor FRSE (22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.

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Age adjustment

In epidemiology and demography, age adjustment, also called age standardization, is a technique used to allow populations to be compared when the age profiles of the populations are quite different.

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August Beer

August Beer (31 July 1825 – 18 November 1863) was a German physicist, chemist, and mathematician of Jewish descent.

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Demography

Demography (from prefix demo- from Ancient Greek δῆμος dēmos meaning "the people", and -graphy from γράφω graphō, implies "writing, description or measurement") is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings.

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Economics

Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Eschweiler

Eschweiler is a municipality in the district of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany on the river Inde, near the German-Belgian-Dutch frontier, and about east of Aachen and west of Cologne.

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Felix Klein

Christian Felix Klein (25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician and mathematics educator, known for his work with group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the associations between geometry and group theory.

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Göttingen

Göttingen (Low German: Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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German Mathematical Society

The German Mathematical Society (Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung – DMV) is the main professional society of German mathematicians.

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Judith Tanur

Judith M. Tanur is an American statistician and sociologist who is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita of Sociology at Stony Brook University.

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Ladislaus Bortkiewicz

Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz (7 August 1868 – 15 July 1931) was Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry, who lived most of his professional life in Germany, where he taught at Strassburg University (Privatdozent, 1895–1897) and Berlin University (1901–1931).

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Lexis ratio

The Lexis ratio is used in statistics as a measure which seeks to evaluate differences between the statistical properties of random mechanisms where the outcome is two-valued — for example "success" or "failure", "win" or "lose".

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Life expectancy

Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age and other demographic factors including gender.

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Mathematical statistics

Mathematical statistics is the application of mathematics to statistics, as opposed to techniques for collecting statistical data.

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Mode (statistics)

The mode of a set of data values is the value that appears most often.

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Moving average

In statistics, a moving average (rolling average or running average) is a calculation to analyze data points by creating series of averages of different subsets of the full data set.

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Neue Deutsche Biographie

Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB; literally New German Biography) is a biographical reference work.

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Normal distribution

In probability theory, the normal (or Gaussian or Gauss or Laplace–Gauss) distribution is a very common continuous probability distribution.

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Plane (geometry)

In mathematics, a plane is a flat, two-dimensional surface that extends infinitely far.

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Probable error

In statistics, probable error defines the half-range of an interval about a central point for the distribution, such that half of the values from the distribution will lie within the interval and half outside.

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Stephen Stigler

Stephen Mack Stigler (born August 10, 1941) is Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago.

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Test statistic

A test statistic is a statistic (a quantity derived from the sample) used in statistical hypothesis testing.

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Time series

A time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order.

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William Kruskal

William Henry ("Bill") Kruskal (October 10, 1919 – April 21, 2005) was an American mathematician and statistician.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Lexis

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