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Simon Newcomb

b. 12 March 1835 d. 11 July 1909

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Statisticians of the Centuries

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Noted Canadian-born astronomer Simon Newcomb contributed especially to the treatment of outliers in statistics and to the application of probability theory to data.

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  1. Peter Guttorp
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  1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

    C. C. Heyde

  2. Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA

    C. C. Heyde

  3. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

    E. Seneta

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Guttorp, P. (2001). Simon Newcomb. In: Heyde, C.C., Seneta, E., Crépel, P., Fienberg, S.E., Gani, J. (eds) Statisticians of the Centuries. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_41

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