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Carl-Erik Quensel (9 October 1907 – 10 April 1977) was a Swedish statistician and demographer, specializing in population statistics, statistical distribution theory and biostatistics.

Biography

Early life

Carl-Erik Quensel was born in Malmö, Sweden, on 9 October 1907, the son of Conrad and Ester Quensel.

Scientific career

In 1935 Qunsel earned a licentiate degree from the Department of Statistics at Lund University, followed by a PhD degree in 1938. In 1941, he was appointed professor of Statistics at Lund University. Quensel was an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He served as a Swedish delegate to the United Nations Population committee.

Major scientific work

A Method of Determining the Regression Curve When the Marginal Distribution is of the Normal Logarithmic Type, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 7:196-201, 1936.

Second moment and of the Correlation Coefficient in Samples from Populations of Type A, The Statistical Institute at the University of Lund. Lund, C. W. K. Gleerup/Leipzig, Otto Harrassowitz, 1938.

Lärobok i den teoretiska statistikens grunder, Lund 1944.

Befolkningsframskrivningar för Hälsingborgs stad 1945 – 1975, Lund, 1949.

Studenternas utbildningsval, tillsammans med Bo Israelsson, Lund, 1958.

References

1. ^ Svensk biografisk handbok, 1977, p.830
2. Gerrit J. Stemerdink. "Members of the International Statistical Institute, A cumulative list for the period 1885-2002" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-10-22.
3. Kulldorff, 1978

Sources

• Blom, Gunnar. "Carl-Erik Quensel". Nationalencyklopedin.
• Kulldorff, Gunnar (1978). "Carl-Erik Quensel, 1907-1977". International Statistical Review. 46 (2): 233–234.
• Svensk Biografisk Handbok (1977), Quensel, Carl-Erik, P.A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, p. 830

External links

• Carl-Erik Quensel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

• Swedish statisticians
• Academic staff of Lund University
• Lund University alumni
• Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
• 1907 births
• 1977 deaths