From Medicine, through Medical to Mathematical Statistics: Some Autobiographical Notes

Lancaster, H. O.

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“…38. In 1945, while still in New Guinea, he enrolled as an external student in second-year honours Mathematics at Sydney University. He wrote of this time (Lancaster, 1982):…”

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In Memoriam: Emeritus Professor Henry Oliver Lancaster, AO FAA 1 February 1913 – 2 December 2001

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2002

Aus NZ J of Statistics

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The death, in Sydney, of Oliver Lancaster marks the end of an era in the histories of the Statistical Society of Australia, which (in its previous existence as the Statistical Society of New South Wales) he helped found in 1947, and of the Australian Journal of Statistics of which he was founding editor (1959–1971). Oliver Lancaster was Foundation Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Sydney (1959–1978), where he spent his life as student and academic. During his academic career, he achieved scholarly distinction in at least four fields: mathematical statistics, medical and public health statistics, the history of medicine and of statistics, and statistical bibliography. With E.J.G. Pitman (1897–1993), M.H. Belz (1897–1975), E.A. Cornish (1909–1973) and P.A.P. Moran (1917–1988) he was part of a cohort of renowned Australian mathematical statisticians who laid the foundation of the glory days of Australian mathematical statistics. This obituary and tribute focuses on some of these aspects, within a broader historical picture.

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“…38. In 1945, while still in New Guinea, he enrolled as an external student in second-year honours Mathematics at Sydney University. He wrote of this time (Lancaster, 1982):…”

Section: History To 1946mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although H.O.L's papers of 1944 do not contain any quantitative statistical inference, they tabulate and graph counting data, and draw qualitative conclusions from this. In relation to the time in Townsville in 1942, presumably of some unpublished analysis, Lancaster (1982) wrote:…”

Section: History To 1946mentioning

confidence: 99%

In Memoriam: Emeritus Professor Henry Oliver Lancaster, AO FAA 1 February 1913 – 2 December 2001

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From Medicine, through Medical to Mathematical Statistics: Some Autobiographical Notes

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In Memoriam: Emeritus Professor Henry Oliver Lancaster, AO FAA 1 February 1913 – 2 December 2001

In Memoriam: Emeritus Professor Henry Oliver Lancaster, AO FAA 1 February 1913 – 2 December 2001

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