Marcello Boldrini

Marcello Boldrini (9 February 1890, in Matelica – 5 March 1969, in Milan) was an Italian statistician.^[1]

Biography

Beginning in 1922, he taught courses in statistics,

. The results are widely discussed in the volumes, Statistica: Teoria e metodi (first edition, 1942), and Teoria della Statistica (1963), which have been studied by thousands of students. For Boldrini, Statistics is a formal science like mathematics and logic, but it is different from them as a scientific inquiry method in the inductive and deductive phases of research.

Beyond academic commitment, he also had several management positions in the state oil industry: he was first named president of Agip (1948–1953),^[2] was then vice-president of ENI (1953–1962), before succeeding Enrico Mattei as president in 1962,^[3] remaining in the post until 1967.

Academic Positions

Professor of Statistics and Demography at the Universities of

(1043-1945).

Honours, memberships

Member of the

. Professor emeritus at Rome University.

Selected works

English

• Scientific Truth and Statistical Method, translated by Ruth Kendall, Griffin (1972)
  ISBN 0-8526-4197-4

Italian

• Biometrica, CEDAM (1927);
• Demografia, A. Giuffrè (1943);
• Statistica in Compendio, A. Giuffrè (1957)
• Teoria della Statistica, A. Giuffrè (1963).
• Statistica, Teoria e Metodi, A. Giuffrè (5th ed. 1968)

References