Charles Frederick Mosteller | |
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| Born | December 24, 1916 |
| Died | July 23, 2006 (aged 89) Arlington, Virginia, U.S. |
| Other names | Fred Mosteller |
| Alma mater | Carnegie Institute of Technology Princeton University |
| Known for | Statistics education |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistician |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Samuel S. Wilks and John Tukey |
| Doctoral students | Persi Diaconis Stephen Fienberg Stanley Wasserman |
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Charles Frederick Mosteller (December 24, 1916 – July 23, 2006) was an American mathematician, considered one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century. He was the founding chairman of Harvard's statistics department from 1957 to 1971, and served as the president of several professional bodies including the Psychometric Society, the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Statistical Institute.[1]