Re: Winsorisation: who was Winsor ?
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:42:02 +0200, Damion Milne
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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.
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Re: Winsorisation: who was Winsor ?
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.
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Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html
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Re: Winsorisation: who was Winsor ?
- Forwarded message from Bob Wheeler -
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:
("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.
- End of forwarded message from Bob Wheeler -
I vote for "Charles" as first name. He joined the Iowa State
Statistical Laboratory in 1939. In the 1940 Bulletin he is the only
person on the staff with a Ph.D.! I have heard gossip that he was
brilliant, lazy and died young. _Statistics: An Appraisal_, David and
David, Iowa State U. Press, 1984 has a picture of Winsor with Cochran,
Cox and Snedecor, some information on statistics at ISU in those
years, and references to other sources, none just on Winsor, yet
possibly useful.
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Re: Winsorisation: who was Winsor ?
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 12:24:41 -0400, Bob Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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: snip, my post, including where I misspelled /mistyped Charles as "George" I searched a bit more but I could not find evidence for Payne or Paine. http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
