Anders Hjorth Hald (3 July 1913 – 11 November 2007) was a Danish statistician. He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1960 to 1982. While a professor, he did research in industrial quality control and other areas, and also authored textbooks. After retirement, he made important contributions to the history of statistics.

Hald was a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, a Member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Bibliography

  • "T. N. Thiele's contributions to statistics", International Statistical Review, 49, number 1 (1981): 1–20. (Reprinted in )
  • "The early history of the cumulants and the Gram–Charlier series", International Statistical Review, 68, number 2 (2000): 137–153. (Reprinted in )

In Danish

  • Statistiske Metoder, 1949
  • Statistisk Kvalitetskontrol, 1954
  • Statistiske Metoder i Arbejdsstudierteknikken, 1955
  • Elementær Lærebog i Statistisk Kvalitetskontrol, 1956

References

  • Kraks Blå Bog 1984
  • There is an obituary by Neils Keiding at <br />IMS Bulletin 37, issue 1 (2008), p.&nbsp;12.
  • The Royal Society of Edinburgh has an obituary, written by David Finney, at <br />ANDERS H. HALD
  • There is a photograph at <br>Anders Hald on the Portraits of Statisticians page.
  • There is a bibliography of Hald's writings on the history of statistics at <br>Anders Hald (1913–2007): Writings on the History of Probability and Statistics in the Electronic Journal for History of Probability and Statistics.