Alexander Aitken
New Zealand mathematician (1895-1967) · New Zealand · Academics · Died at 72
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Something wrong?Alexander Craig "Alec" Aitken was one of New Zealand's most eminent mathematicians. In a 1935 paper he introduced the concept of generalized least squares, along with now standard vector/matrix notation for the linear regression model.
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Alexander Craig "Alec" Aitken was one of New Zealand's most eminent mathematicians. In a 1935 paper he introduced the concept of generalized least squares, along with now standard vector/matrix notation for the linear regression model. Another influential paper co-authored with his student Harold Silverstone established the lower bound on the variance of an estimator, now known as Cramér-Rao bound. He was elected to the Royal Society of Literature for his World War I memoir, Gallipoli to the Somme.
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