On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:42:02 +0200, Damion Milne
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to add some biographical information on Winsor to my slides
> on the winsorisation technique, which deals with outliers in a
> distribution.
>
> Winsorisation is described in Afifi and Azen 1979, by Academic Press
>
> Please send me some info on Winsor the man. Thanks
("Could anyone suggest references for me ...?" would be a gentler way
to request assistance....) It is George P. Winsor. He drove an
ambulance in WW I.
http://libweb.princeton.edu:2003/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/mathoral/pmc41.htm
- has an interview with John Tukey concerning the statistics
department and activities at Princeton.
I did a www.google.com search on Winsor statistics history
and got a few relevant hits, including the above, and mostly including
Tukey.
--
Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html
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