Carl-Erik Quensel

Carl-Erik Quensel (9 October 1907 – 10 April 1977) was a Swedish statistician and demographer, specializing in population statistics, statistical distribution theory and biostatistics.

Carl-Erik Quensel
Born(1907-10-09)9 October 1907
Malmö, Sweden
Died10 April 1977(1977-04-10) (aged 69)
NationalitySwedish
Alma materLund University
Awards4
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsLund University
Doctoral studentsGunnar Kulldorff

Biography

Early life

Carl-Erik Quensel was born in Malmö, Sweden on 9 October 1907, the son of Conrad and Ester Quensel. .[1]

Scientific career

In 1935 Qunsel earned a licentiate degree from the Department of Statistics at Lund University, followed by a PhD degree in 1938. In 1941, he was appointed professor of Statistics at Lund UnIversity .[1] Quensel was an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[2] He served as a Swedish delegate to the United Nations Population committee.[3]

Major scientific work

A Method of Determining the Regression Curve When the Marginal Distribution is of the Normal Logarithmic Type, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 7:196-201, 1936.

Second moment and of the Correlation Coefficient in Samples from Populations of Type A, The Statistical Institute at the University of Lund. Lund, C. W. K. Gleerup/Leipzig, Otto Harrassowitz, 1938.

Lärobok i den teoretiska statistikens grunder, Lund 1944.

Befolkningsframskrivningar för Hälsingborgs stad 1945 – 1975, Lund, 1949.

Studenternas utbildningsval, tillsammans med Bo Israelsson, Lund, 1958.

References
  1. Svensk biografisk handbok, 1977, p.830
  2. Gerrit J. Stemerdink. "Members of the International Statistical Institute, A cumulative list for the period 1885-2002" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-10-22.
  3. Kulldorff, 1978

Sources
  • Blom, Gunnar. "Carl-Erik Quensel". Nationalencyklopedin.
  • Kulldorff, Gunnar (1978). "Carl-Erik Quensel, 1907-1977". International Statistical Review. 46 (2): 233–234.
  • Svensk Biografisk Handbok (1977), Quensel, Carl-Erik, P.A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, p. 830
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