Wilhelm Lexis
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Wilhelm Lexis was an eminent German statistician, economist, and social scientist and a founder of the interdisciplinary study of insurance. Born in Eschweiler as the son of a physician, Lexis obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Heidelberg, where he was an assistant of the famous Chemist Robert Bunsen. He then worked as a Gymnasium teacher, librarian, and journalist, until in 1872 he became, until 1874, …
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| Born: | July 17, 1837 |
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| Died: | October 25, 1914 |
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Lexis studied data presented as a series over time thus initiating the study of time series. www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Lexis... |
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Lexis
studied data presented as a series over time thus initiating the study
of time series. www.shsu.edu/~icc_cmf/bio/lexis.html |
| | Wilhelm Lexis attended the University of Bonn where he was awarded a degree in mathematics and then went on to write a thesis on analytical mechanics. He graduated in 1859 and then went to Heidelberg where he undertook research in Bunsen's chemistry labo www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Lexis.html |
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At the first International Congress of Demography held in Paris in 1878, the German statistician Wilhelm Lexis argued for the notion of a normal length of human life governed by a law of nature. His conception was based on Quetelet's "average man" and th www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_REVUE=POPE&ID_NUMPUBLIE=POP... |
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