Charles Winsor
American statistician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Paine Winsor was an American engineer, physiologist and biostatistician. Winsor was born in Boston to Frederick Winsor and Mary Anna Lee Winsor in 1895. He studied at Harvard University where he obtained 2 degrees in engineering. From 1921 to 1927 he worked as an engineer at the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. His interest in biology made him switch career and he moved to Baltimore to work for Raymond Pearl, and he returned to Harvard to finish his PhD in 1935 in general physiology under W. J. Crozier. Following this, from 1938 to 1941 he worked at the Statistical Laboratory at Iowa State College as Assistant Professor of mathematics. During the war he worked at Princeton University under a contract from the Office of Scientific Research and Development. Following the war, in 1946 he went back to Baltimore and become Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. It was during this time that he became the editor of the scientific journal Human Biology. He died suddenly April 4, 1951 at the age of 55. He was survived by his wife Agnes Winsor.
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- The Gompertz Curve as a Growth Curve. (1932) (814)
- Low Moments for Small Samples: A Comparative Study of Order Statistics (1947) (348)
- The Rate of Recovery of Decimated Populations of Brown Rats in Nature (1948) (52)
- The Education of a Scientific Generalist. (1949) (31)
- Dark Adaptation after Varying of Light Adaptation. (1936) (29)
- Sampling Variations in the Use of Plankton Nets (1936) (28)
- Age incidence and seasonal development of neutralizing antibodies to lansing poliomyelitis virus. (1950) (22)
- MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OF GROWTH OF MIXED POPULATIONS (1934) (18)
- Factorial analysis of a multiple dichotomy (1948) (13)
- The Form of the Growth Curve of the Canteloup (Cucumis Melo) under Field Conditions. (1928) (10)
- Which regression? (1946) (10)
- ON THE THEORETICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF TALBOT'S LAW (1934) (9)
- Controlling Factors in Drosophila Population Growth (1937) (9)
- The eggs of Goniobasis virginica Gmelin and Anculosa carinata Bruguiere (1933) (5)
- AERATION AND GROWTH OF CANTELOUP SEEDLINGS (CUCUMIS MELO) (1934) (5)
- Industrial Statistics@@@Industrial Statistics. (1947) (2)
- Longevity and fertility in the pond snail, Lym-naea columella (1935) (2)
- POLYVITELLINE EGGS AND DOUBLE MONSTERS IN THE POND SNAIL LYMNÆA COLUMELLA SAY (1932) (2)
- Human Sapience (1928) (0)
- [Not Available]. (1947) (0)
- Book Review:Practical Statistics in Health and Medical Work. Ruth Rice Puffer (1951) (0)
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