Quick Facts
Biography
Carl-Erik Quensel (9 October 1907 – 10 April 1977) was a Swedish statistician and demographer, specializing in population statistics, statistical distribution theory and biostatistics.
Biography
Early life
Carl-Erik Quensel was born in Malmö, Sweden on 9 October 1907, the son of Conrad and Ester Quensel. .
Scientific career
In 1935 Qunsel earned a licentiate degree from the Department of Statistics at Lund University, followed by a PhD degree in 1938. In 1941, he was appointed professor of Statistics at Lund UnIversity . Quensel was an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He served as a Swedish delegate to the United Nations Population committee.
Major scientific work
A Method of Determining the Regression Curve When the Marginal Distribution is of the Normal Logarithmic Type, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 7:196-201, 1936.
Second moment and of the Correlation Coefficient in Samples from Populations of Type A, The Statistical Institute at the University of Lund. Lund, C. W. K. Gleerup/Leipzig, Otto Harrassowitz, 1938.
Lärobok i den teoretiska statistikens grunder, Lund 1944.
Befolkningsframskrivningar för Hälsingborgs stad 1945 – 1975, Lund, 1949.
Studenternas utbildningsval, tillsammans med Bo Israelsson, Lund, 1958.