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/ =
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. _ | |Robert W. Hayden | | Work: Department of Mathematics / |Plymouth State College MSC#29 | |Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264 USA | * |fax (603) 535-2943 /| Home: 82 River Street (use this in the summer) | )Ashland, NH 03217 L_/(603) 968-9914 (use this year-round) Map of New[EMAIL PROTECTED] (works year-round) Hampshire http://mathpc04.plymouth.edu (works year-round) The State of New Hampshire takes no responsibility for what this map looks like if you are not using a fixed-width font such as Courier. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." --Thomas Edison = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
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. > > -- > Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html -- Bob Wheeler --- (Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ECHIP, Inc. = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Re: Winsorisation: who was Winsor ?
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 = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =