Frederick Mosteller

✶December 24, 1916

†July 23, 2006

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Charles Frederick Mosteller was an American mathematician, considered one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century. He was the founding chairman of Harvard's statistics department from 1957 to 1971, and served as the president of several professional bodies including the Psychometric Society, the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Statistical Institute.

American statistician (1916–2006)

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