E.J.G. Pitman

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Edwin James George Pitman (1897-1993) was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Tasmania from 1926 to 1962, and visiting lecturer and professor at several universities in the United States, England and Australia.

One of the most influential statisticians of the twentieth century, he was noted in statistical theory for the Pitman-Koopman-Darmois theorem concerning exponential families of probability distributions.

In applied statistics, he is remembered primarily as the originator of the Pitman permutation test.

Trivia

For "the sum of squares of deviations from the mean," he coined the term squariance; for "the logarithm of the likelihood" he coined the term loglihood. However, neither of these terms caught on.

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