Daniels, Henry Ellis was born in London in October 1912. After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1933, he continued his studies at Cambridge University. After gaining his doctorate at Edinburgh University, he went back to Cambridge as lecturer in mathematics in 1947. In 1957, Daniels, Henry became the first professor of mathematics at Birmingham University, a post he held until 1978, up to his retirement. The research field that interested Daniels, Henry were inferential statistics, saddlepoint approximations in statistics, epidemiological modeling and statistical theory as applied to textile technology. When he was in Birmingham, he founded the annual meeting of statisticians in Gregynog Hall in Powys. These annual meetings gradually became one of the most well-received among English statisticians.
From 1974 to 1975 he was president of the Royal Statistical Society, which awarded him the Guy Medal in silver in 1957 and in gold in 1984. In 1980 he was elected a member of the...
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(2008). Daniels, Henry E.. In: The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32833-1_95
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