Ladislaus Bortkiewicz
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 93 years ago |
Date of birth | August 7,1868 |
Zodiac sign | Leo |
Born | Saint Petersburg |
Russia | |
Date of died | July 15,1931 |
Died | Berlin |
Germany | |
Books | Elements of Mathematical Statistics: Also L.v. Bortkiewicz, Table of Poisson's Frequency Function |
Known for | Transformation problem |
Poisson distribution | |
Influenced by | Karl Marx |
Vladimir Karpovich Dmitriev | |
Job | Economist |
Statistician | |
Education | Saint Petersburg State University |
Strasbourg University | |
University of Göttingen | |
Doctor advisor | Georg Friedrich Knapp |
Wilhelm Lexis | |
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ID | 513693 |
Ladislaus Bortkiewicz Life story
Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry. He wrote a book showing how the Poisson distribution, a discrete probability distribution, can be useful in applied statistics, and he made contributions to mathematical economics.