Salem Hanna Khamis | |
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| Born | November 22, 1919 |
| Died | June 16, 2005 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | Palestinian, British |
| Academic career | |
| Field | International Statistician |
| Institution | American University of Beirut |
| Alma mater | Arab College in Jerusalem, American University of Beirut, University College London |
| Contributions | Geary–Khamis dollar, Sampling theory, tabulation of the Incomplete gamma function, wrote “Tables of the Incomplete Gamma Function Ratio”. |
Salem Hanna Khamis (Arabic: سالم حنا خميس) (November 22, 1919 – June 16, 2005) was a Palestinian economic statistician for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization who helped formalise the Geary-Khamis method of computing purchasing power parity of currencies.