Carl-Erik Quensel

Carl-Erik Quensel
Born (1907-10-09)9 October 1907
Malmö, Sweden
Died 10 April 1977(1977-04-10) (aged 69)
Residence Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Fields Statistics
Institutions Lund University
Alma mater Lund University
Doctoral students Gunnar Kulldorff
Spouse Birgitta Sederholm
Children Maria, Elisabeth, Anna-Sofia, Johan

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

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.

Notes

  1. 1 2 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

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