Leon Isserlis
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Leon Isserlis | |
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| Born | June 1881 Chamber of Shipping |
| Doctoral advisor | Karl Pearson |
Leon Isserlis (1881–1966) was a
Chebyshev and Chuprov
.
He was born in
Chamber of Shipping and remained there until his retirement in 1942, when his position as statistician was taken by Maurice Kendall
.
In 1926 he wrote a review for the
R. A. Fisher's seminal book Statistical Methods for Research Workers
. The review was rather critical, particularly of Fisher's lack of references to earlier work by others such as Chebyshev.
He was a friend of
Medical Research Council, although most of this work was anonymous and unpublished. He was also chairman of the Jewish Health Organization from 1931 to 1939. He served as secretary of the Royal Statistical Society in 1934–35 and again in 1944–45, and was awarded its Guy Medal
in Silver in 1939.
References
- JSTOR 2982284.
- John Aldrich (August 2005 – October 2019). "Leon Isserlis and the JRSS review of the 1st edition of R. A. Fisher's Statistical Methods for Research Workers". Archived from the original on 30 November 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- L. I. [Leon Isserlis]. "Review of Statistical Methods for Research Workers". JSTOR 2341488.