Statistical Science

A Conversation with H. A. David

Abstract

Herbert Aron David was born in Berlin, Germany, on December 19, 1925. He earned a Ph.D. (1953) in statistics from University College London. Since then he has been a Research Officer at CSIRO, Sydney (1953–1955), Senior Lecturer in Statistics at Melbourne University (1955–1957), Professor of Statistics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1957–1964), Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina (1964–1972), Director and Head, Statistical Laboratory and Department of Statistics at Iowa State University (1972–1984) and Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University (1980–1996). Currently he is Emeritus Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He also has served as Editor of Biometrics and as President of the Biometric Society. A list of all his publications until 1996 can be found in Statistical Theory and Applications. Papers in Honor of Herbert A. David (1996) 313–326.

This interview was conducted on September 9, 2000 (Saturday) at the Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames.

Article information

Source
Statist. Sci. Volume 19, Number 4 (2004), 720-734.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 18 April 2005

http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1113832736

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/088342304000000124

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2185592

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1100.01502

Citation

Balakrishnan, Narayanaswamy; N. Nagaraja, Haikady. A Conversation with H. A. David. Statist. Sci. 19 (2004), no. 4, 720--734. doi:10.1214/088342304000000124. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1113832736.

References

• Balakrishnan, N. and Rao, C. R., eds. (1998a). Order Statistics: Theory and Methods. Handbook of Statistics 16. North-Holland, Amsterdam.
• Balakrishnan, N. and Rao, C. R., eds. (1998b). Order Statistics: Applications. Handbook of Statistics 17. North-Holland, Amsterdam.
• Bhattacharya, P. K. (1974). Convergence of sample paths of normalized sums of induced order statistics. Ann. Statist. 2 1034--1039.
• David, F. N. and Barton, D. E. (1962). Combinatorial Chance. Griffin, London.
• David, H. A. (1959). Tournaments and paired comparisons. Biometrika 46 139--149.
• David, H. A. (1963a). The Method of Paired Comparisons. Griffin, London. (2nd ed., 1988.)
• David, H. A. (1963b). The structure of cyclic paired-comparison designs. J. Austral. Math. Soc. 3 117--127.
• David, H. A. (1970). Order Statistics. Wiley, New York. (2nd ed., 1981.)
• David, H. A. (1973). Concomitants of order statistics. Bull. Inst. Internat. Statist. 45 295--300.
• David, H. A. (1984). The Iowa State Statistical Laboratory: Antecedents and early years, 1914--47. In Statistics: An Appraisal (H. A. David and H. T. David, eds.) 3--18. Iowa State Univ. Press, Ames.
• David, H. A. and David, H. T., eds. (1984). Statistics: An Appraisal. Iowa State Univ. Press, Ames.
• David, H. A. and Edwards, A. W. F. (2000). Annotated Readings in the History of Statistics. Springer, New York.
• David, H. A., Hartley, H. O. and Pearson, E. S. (1954). The distribution of the ratio, in a single normal sample, of range to standard deviation. Biometrika 41 482--493.
• David, H. A., Kennedy, W. J. and Knight, R. D. (1977). Means, variances and covariances of the normal order statistics in the presence of an outlier. Selected Tables in Mathematical Statistics 5 75--204. Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI.
• David, H. A. and Moeschberger, M. L. (1978). The Theory of Competing Risks. Griffin, London.
• David, H. T. (1996). Herbert Aron David. In Statistical Theory and Applications: Papers in Honor of Herbert A. David (H. N. Nagaraja, P. K. Sen and D. F. Morrison, eds.) 313--326. Springer, New York.
• Gumbel, E. J. (1954). The maxima of the mean largest value and of the range. Ann. Math. Statist. 25 76--84.
• Hartley, H. O. (1950a). The use of range in analysis of variance. Biometrika 37 271--280.
• Hartley, H. O. (1950b). The maximum $F$-ratio as a short-cut test for heterogeneity of variance. Biometrika 37 308--312.
• Hartley, H. O. and David, H. A. (1954). Universal bounds for mean range and extreme observation. Ann. Math. Statist. 25 85--99.
• Rao, C. R. (1952). Advanced Statistical Methods in Biometric Research. Wiley, New York.
• West, C. J. (1918). Introduction to Mathematical Statistics. R. G. Adams, Columbus, OH.