85. Harold Hotelling Papers
1, Mayer, Joseph. 1, Mills, Frederick C. 1, Odum, Howard W. 1, pearson, EgonS. 1, Proxmire, William. 1, Pusey, Nathan M. 1, Richardson, Roland George Dwight.
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Harold Hotelling Papers
Finding Aid Prepared by Henry Rowen
January 2002 Date Range
Size of Collection : 24 linear ft. (ca. 12800 items in 58 boxes)
Date of Acquisition : Gift of Mrs. Harold Hotelling, 1985
Material on Microfilm : No material on microfilm
Terms of Access : Available for faculty, students, or researchers engaged in scholarly or publication projects
Restrictions on Use or Access
Location in Stacks : In sequence
Processing Information : Processed by Henry Rowen, 1986
RLIN ID BIOGRAPHY Harold Hotelling, 1895-1973 mathematical statistician and mathematical economist taught at Columbia University from 1931 until he left in 1946 to establish the Institute of Statistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During the Second World War Hotelling did research in Columbia University's Statistical Research Group. Later he was involved in research for the Office of Naval Research at Chapel Hill. He was active in many professional organizations especially the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. SCOPE AND CONTENT Correspondence, manuscripts, addresses, documents and printed materials. Correspondents include: Milton Friedman, Samuel S. Wilks, Nathan Pusey, William Proxmire, Helen M. Walker, Ray Lyman Wilbur, Alfred Cowles, 3d and Ragnar Frisch. The papers also include biographical, teaching and research materials; publications and drafts of articles and books including his study, "The Teaching of Statistics," and materials on the concept of "Hotelling's Generalized T Measure of Multivariate Dispersion". | |
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