Warren M. Persons
American economist
Warren Milton Persons | |
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| Born | 1878 |
| Died | October 11, 1937 |
| Education | University of Wisconsin |
| Occupation | Economist |
| Spouse | Irmagarde Keller |
Warren M. Persons (1878–1937) was an American economist. He was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, and a professor of economics at Colorado College and Harvard University. He was the President of the American Statistical Association in 1923.
Early life
Warren M. Persons was born in 1878.[1] He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1899, and he earned a PhD in economics in 1916.[2]
Career
Persons taught economics at the University of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1906.[2] He was an assistant professor of economics at Dartmouth College from 1906 to 1910.[2] He was a professor of economics at Colorado College from 1913 to 1918, and at Harvard University from 1918 to 1928.[2] He was also the editor of The Review of Economics and Statistics.[2]
Persons became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1914, and its president in 1923.[2]
Personal life and death
Persons married Irmagarde Keller in 1906.[2] He fell ill with tuberculosis in 1910 and survived in 1913.[2]
Persons died on October 11, 1937.[1][2]
Works
- Persons, Warren M. (1919). Indices of General Business Conditions. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Committee on Economic research. OCLC 917724375.
- Persons, Warren M. (1928). The Construction of Index Numbers. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
References
- ^ a b "Online Books by Warren M. Persons (Persons, Warren M. (Warren Milton), 1878-1937)". Online Books Page. Retrieved March 9, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Foster, William Trufant (June 1939). "Warren Milton Persons". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 34 (206): 411–415. doi:10.1080/01621459.1939.10502398. JSTOR 2278864.
Further reading
- Friedman, Walter A. (2014). "Chapter 4: C.J. Bullock and Warren Persons: The Harvard ABC Chart. "The Statistician... attempts to find an analogy existing in an orderly universe"". Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 128–165. ISBN 9780691159119. OCLC 858778194.
- "Warren M. Persons". JSTOR.
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Presidents of the American Statistical Association
- Richard Fletcher (1839–1845)
- George C. Shattuck (1846–1851)
- Edward Jarvis (1852–1882)
- Francis Amasa Walker (1883–1896)
- Carroll D. Wright (1897–1909)
- S. N. D. North (1910)
- Frederick Ludwig Hoffman (1911)
- Walter Francis Willcox (1912)
- John Koren (1914)
- Edward Dana Durand (1915)
- Charles P. Neill (1916)
- Allyn Abbott Young (1917)
- Wesley Clair Mitchell (1918)
- Joseph Adna Hill (1919)
- George E. Roberts (1920)
- Carroll W. Doten (1921)
- William S. Rossiter (1922)
- Warren M. Persons (1923)
- Louis Israel Dublin (1924)
- Robert E. Chaddock (1925)
- Leonard Porter Ayres (1926)
- Edmund E. Day (1927)
- Carl Snyder (1928)
- Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1929)
- Malcolm C. Rorty (1930)
- William Fielding Ogburn (1931)
- Irving Fisher (1932)
- Stuart A. Rice (1933)
- Frederick C. Mills (1934)
- Willford I. King (1935)
- Joseph S. Davis (1936)
- Warren Randolph Burgess (1937)
- Robert H. Coats (1938)
- Raymond Pearl (1939)
- F. Leslie Hayford (1940)
- Winfield W. Riefler (1941)
- Alfred J. Lotka (1942)
- Emanuel Goldenweiser (1943)
- Helen M. Walker (1944)
- Walter A. Shewhart (1945)
- Isador Lubin (1946)
- Willard Thorp (1947)
- George W. Snedecor (1948)
- Simon Kuznets (1949)
- Samuel S. Wilks (1950)
- Lowell Reed (1951)
- Aryness Joy Wickens (1952)
- William Gemmell Cochran (1953)
- Herbert Marshall (1954)
- Ralph J. Watkins (1955)
- Gertrude Mary Cox (1956)
- William R. Leonard (1957)
- Walter E. Hoadley (1958)
- Rensis Likert (1959)
- Morris H. Hansen (1960)
- Martin R. Gainsbrugh (1961)
- Philip Hauser (1962)
- Raymond T. Bowman (1963)
- Albert H. Bowker (1964)
- W. Allen Wallis (1965)
- Frederick F. Stephan (1966)
- Frederick Mosteller (1967)
- Geoffrey H. Moore (1968)
- A. Ross Eckler (1969)
- T. A. Bancroft (1970)
- Churchill Eisenhart (1971)
- William H. Shaw (1972)
- Clifford G. Hildreth (1973)
- Jerome Cornfield (1974)
- Lester Frankel (1975)
- Franklin A. Graybill (1976)
- Leslie Kish (1977)
- George E. P. Box (1978)
- Herman Otto Hartley (1979)
- Margaret E. Martin (1980)
- Ralph A. Bradley (1981)
- William Kruskal (1982)
- Richard Loree Anderson (1983)
- I. Richard Savage (1984)
- John Neter (1985)
- Donald Marquardt (1986)
- Barbara A. Bailar (1987)
- Robert V. Hogg (1988)
- Janet L. Norwood (1989)
- Vincent Barabba (1990)
- Arnold Zellner (1991)
- Katherine Wallman (1992)
- J. Stuart Hunter (1993)
- Ronald L. Iman (1994)
- Mitchell H. Gail (1995)
- Lynne Billard (1996)
- Jon R. Kettenring (1997)
- David S. Moore (1998)
- Jonas H. Ellenberg (1999)
- W. Michael O'Fallon (2000)
- Richard L. Scheaffer (2001)
- Miron L. Straf (2002)
- Robert L. Mason (2003)
- Bradley Efron (2004)
- Fritz Scheuren (2005)
- Sallie Ann Keller (2006)
- Mary Ellen Bock (2007)
- Peter A. Lachenbruch (2008)
- Sally C. Morton (2009)
- Sastry G. Pantula (2010)
- Nancy Geller (2011)
- Robert N. Rodriguez (2012)
- Marie Davidian (2013)
- Nathaniel Schenker (2014)
- David R. Morganstein (2015)
- Jessica Utts (2016)
- Barry D. Nussbaum (2017)
- Lisa Morrissey LaVange (2018)
- Karen Kafadar (2019)
- Wendy L. Martinez (2020)
- Robert Santos (2021)
- Kathy Ensor (2022)
- Dionne Price (2023)
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