Charles Payne Winsor (It might be "Paine".)
He died in the early 50's. There was a biography
in the American Statistician, I think.
Rich Ulrich wrote:
>
> 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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