Charlier, Carl V.L.
(2018)- Abstract
- Carl Charlier was a Swedish astronomer and statistician. He was influential in making mathematical statistics a university subject in Sweden. His main statistical contribution was the Gram‐Charlier expansions of continuous (Type A) and discrete (Type B) distributions. In astronomy he successfully created a hierarchical galaxy cluster model.
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Carl Charlier was a Swedish astronomer and statistician. He was influential in making mathematical statistics a university subject in Sweden. His main statistical contribution was the Gram-Charlier expansions of continuous (Type A) and discrete (Type B) distributions. In astronomy he successfully created a hierarchical galaxy cluster model.
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- author
- Lindgren, Georg LU and Guttorp, Peter LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018-12-06
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Wiley StatsRef : Statistics Reference Online - Statistics Reference Online
- pages
- 2 pages
- publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- DOI
- 10.1002/9781118445112.stat08144
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- b341c311-de1f-4ace-ba43-ed99bf63b0f2
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- 2018-12-13 12:02:19
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