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Theodore Wilbur Anderson was an American mathematician and statistician who has specialized in the analysis of multivariate data.

He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was on the faculty of Columbia University from 1946 until moving to Stanford University in 1967, becoming Emeritus Professor in 1988. He served as Editor of Annals of Mathematical Statistics from 1950 to 1952. He was elected President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1962.

Anderson's 1958 textbook, An Introduction to Multivariate Analysis, educated a generation of theorists and applied statisticians; it was "the classic" in the area until the book by Mardia, Kent and Bibby [1]. Anderson's book emphasizes hypothesis testing via likelihood ratio tests and the properties of power functions: Admissibility, unbiasedness and monotonicity.Anderson is also known for Anderson–Darling test of whether there is evidence that a given sample of data did not arise from a given probability distribution.

He also framed the Anderson–Bahadur algorithm along with Raghu Raj Bahadur which is used in statistics and engineering for solving binary classification problems when the underlying data have multivariate normal distributions with different covariance matrices. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. June 1918 – 17. September 2016
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“Early in 1943 I got full time war research work… My first project was to evaluate long term weather forecast. Longe range, in that time, meant three to four days.”

Theodore Wilbur Anderson

Source: "The ET interview: Professor TW Anderson," 1986, p. 525

“A time series is a sequence of observations, usually ordered in time, although in some cases the ordering may be according to another dimension. The feature of time series analysis which distinguishes it from other statistical analysis is the explicit recognition of the importance of the order in which the observations are made. While in many problems the observations are statistically independent, in time series successive observations may be dependent, and the dependence may depend on the positions in the sequence. The nature of a series and the structure of its generating process also may involve in other ways the sequence in which the observations are taken.”

Theodore Wilbur Anderson

T. W. Anderson. The Statistical Analysis of Time Series http://books.google.com/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=rCOzXIC8ZLkC&oi=fnd&pg=PR11, (1971/2011), p. 1. Introduction; Cited in: American Sociological Association (1974), Sociological Methodology, p. 310

“[At Princeton Samuel Wilks…] was the major interest for me… I did have a contact with Oscar Morgenstern… Von Neumann was developing theory of games at the time… but I must say, I really didn't understand it very well when he lectured it.”

Theodore Wilbur Anderson

Source: "The ET interview: Professor TW Anderson," 1986, p. 525

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