Professor

Edwin Pitman

FAA

Edwin Pitman
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Distinguished for his contributions to the Statistical Theory of Estimation and the theory of non-parametric tests of significance. His papers are models of lucid and compact exposition, and clearly stamp him as an acute, capable and original thinker.

Expertise type

  • Statistics
  • Mathematics

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Memoir

Edwin James George Pitman 1897-1993

Edwin James George Pitman was born in Melbourne on 29 October 1897 and died at Kingston near Hobart on 21 July 1993. His father, Edwin Edward Pitman, was born at Morecombe, Whitchurch in the county of Dorset on 7 May 1862, and his mother, Ann Ungley (née Hooks) at Marylebone on 10 January 1865; they met on the ship to Australia, married and settled in Melbourne. The father worked for a firm making prime movers and other machinery.
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