M. S. Bartlett
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Doctoral advisor | John Wishart |
Doctoral students | David George Kendall Maurice Priestley Alladi Ramakrishnan Julian Besag |
Maurice Stevenson Bartlett
Biography
Born in London,[6] Bartlett was raised in a poor family but won a scholarship to Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, where he was inspired to the study of statistics by a chapter in Hall and Knight's Algebra. In 1929, he won a scholarship to Queens' College, Cambridge where he read mathematics, graduating with the rank of wrangler. He attended lectures on statistics by John Wishart, on relativity by Arthur Eddington and on quantum mechanics by Paul Dirac. In one of his lectures Wishart described his geometric derivation of the Wishart distribution. Overnight Bartlett worked out a proof using characteristic functions. Bartlett was Wishart's first post-graduate student and they wrote two papers together. This was the beginning of Bartlett's involvement with multivariate analysis. During his Queens years, he rowed for the college.[7]
In 1933, Bartlett was recruited by
After the war Bartlett's renewed Cambridge work focused on
After his retirement Bartlett remained active in statistics, visiting the Institute of Advanced Studies at the
Bartlett is known for
Honours
- Rayleigh Prize, (1933);
- Guy Medals in Silver (1952) and Gold (1969) of the Royal Statistical Society;
- President of the Manchester Statistical Society, (1959–1960);
- Fellow of the Royal Society, (1961);
- President of the Royal Statistical Society (1966);
- Honorary Member of the International Statistical Institute, (1980);
- Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, (1993);
- D.Sc.s from the University of Chicago (1966) and the University of Hull(1976).
References
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- ^ M. S. Bartlett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- ISBN 978-1-932482-44-7.
Works
Books
- An Introduction to Stochastic Processes, (1955) ISBN 0-521-04116-3
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- Stochastic Population Models in Ecology and Epidemiology, (1960) ISBN 0-416-52330-7
- Essays in Probability and Statistics, (1962) ISBN 0-416-64880-0
- Probability, Statistics and Time, (1975) ISBN 0-412-14150-7
- The Statistical Analysis of Spatial Pattern, (1976) ISBN 0-412-14290-2
- Selected Papers of M. S. Bartlett 3 vols. edited by R.G. Stanton, E.D. Johnson, D.S. Meek. Winnipeg : Charles Babbage Research Centre (1989).
Selected papers
- (1933) with John Wishart, The distribution of second order moment statistics in a normal system. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 28, 455–459.
- (1933) On the theory of statistical regression. Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, 53, 260–283.
- (1933) Probability and chance in the theory of statistics. Proc. Royal Soc. Lond. A 141 518–534.
- (1934) The vector representation of a sample. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc., 30, 327–340.
- (1936) Statistical information and properties of sufficiency. Proc. Royal Soc. Lond. A 154, 124–137.
- (1937) Properties of sufficiency and statistical tests. Proc. Royal Soc. Lond. A, 160, 268–282. (reprinted with an introduction by D. A. S. Fraser S. Kotz & N. L. Johnson (eds) Breakthroughs in Statistics, volume 1. Springer, New York. 1992.)
- (1938) Methods of estimating mental factors. Nature, 141, 609–610.
- (1939) A note on tests of significance in multivariate analysis, in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- (1941) The statistical significance of canonical correlation. Biometrika.
- (1947) The use of transformations. Biometrics.
- (1948) Internal and external factor analysis. British Journal of Psychiatry.
- (1949) Fitting a straight line when both variables are subjects to error. Biometrics.
- (1949) The statistical significance of "dispersed hits" in card-guessing experiments. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 48, 336–338.
- (1950) Tests of significance in multivariate analysis. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology.
- (1950) Tests of significance in factor analysis. British Journal of Psychology, 3, 77–85.
Autobiography
- Ingram Olkin (1989) A Conversation with Maurice Bartlett, Statistical Science, 4, 151–163.
- "Chance and Change" in J. Gani (ed) (1982) The Making of Statisticians, New York: Springer-Verlag.
Several statisticians, including Bartlett, give their life stories.
External links
- ISI Newsletter Note by D. R. Cox
- IMS Bulletin Obituary by Besag & Clifford p. 14 at the Wayback Machine (archived 17 May 2005)
- Royal Society citation
For Bartlett's correspondence with Fisher see
- Statistical Inference and Analysis, Selected Correspondence of R.A. Fisher Edited by J. H. Bennett
- Correspondence of Sir R. A. Fisher: Calendar of Correspondence with M.S. Bartlett
There are photographs at