This article outlines the scientific work and life of the Finnish
statistician, probabilist, and mathematician Gustav Elfving (1908–1984).
Elfving’s academic career, scientific contacts, and personal life are
sketched, and his main research contributions to the fields of statistics,
probability, and mathematics are reviewed. (Elfving’s pioneering work in
optimal design of experiments is not covered, as this topic will be treated
elsewhere in this issue.) A chronological bibliography of Gustav Elfving is
also given.
Publié le : 1999-05-14
Classification:
Bayesian statistics,
complex analysis,
decision theory,
expansion of distributions,
Markov chains,
multivariate distribution theory,
nonparametric statistics,
optimal design of experiments,
optimal stopping,
order statistics,
quality control,
sufficiency and completeness
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author = {Nordstr\"om, Kenneth},
title = {The life and work of Gustav Elfving},
journal = {Statist. Sci.},
volume = {14},
number = {1},
year = {1999},
pages = { 174-196},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1009212244}
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Nordström, Kenneth. The life and work of Gustav Elfving. Statist. Sci., Tome 14 (1999) no. 1, pp. 174-196. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1009212244/