Anderson

Oskar Johann Viktor Anderson

Born: 2 Aug 1887 in Minsk, Belarus
 Died: 12 Feb 1960 in Munich, Germany

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Oskar Anderson studied economics at university and his dissertation was on variance-difference methods for analysing time series. It was published in Biometrika in 1914 at essentially the same time as Gosset published a similar method.

Anderson left Russia in 1920 and after 4 years in Hungary he held chairs of statistics in Bulgaria, then Kiel and finally Munich. He applied mathematical statistics to economics, using nonparametric methods.

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