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HAROLD HOTELLING WAS A man of many interests and talents. After majoring in journalism at the University of Washington and obtaining his B.A in that field in 1919, he did his graduate work in mathematics at Princeton, where he received his Ph.D. in 1924 with a thesis on topology. Upon leaving Princeton, he took a position as research associate at the Food Research Institute of Stanford University, from where he moved to the Stanford Mathematics Department as an associate professor in 1927. It was during his Stanford period that he began to focus on the two fields— statistics and economics—in which he would do his life’s work. He was one of the few Americans who in the 1920s realized the revolution that R. A. Fisher had brought about in statistics and he spent six months in 1929 at the Rothamstead (United Kingdom) agricultural research station to work with Fisher.
September 29, 1895–December 26, 1973
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Arrow, K.J., Lehmann, E.L. (2012). Harold Hotelling. In: Rojo, J. (eds) Selected Works of E. L. Lehmann. Selected Works in Probability and Statistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1412-4_74
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