Ladislaus Bortkiewicz
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 94 years ago |
| Date of birth | August 7,1868 |
| Zodiac sign | Leo |
| Born | Saint Petersburg |
| Russia | |
| Date of died | July 15,1931 |
| Died | Berlin |
| Germany | |
| Books | Elements of Mathematical Statistics: Also L.v. Bortkiewicz, Table of Poisson's Frequency Function |
| Known for | Transformation problem |
| Poisson distribution | |
| Influenced by | Karl Marx |
| Vladimir Karpovich Dmitriev | |
| Job | Economist |
| Statistician | |
| Education | Saint Petersburg State University |
| Strasbourg University | |
| University of Göttingen | |
| Doctor advisor | Georg Friedrich Knapp |
| Wilhelm Lexis | |
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| ID | 513693 |
Ladislaus Bortkiewicz Life story
Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry. He wrote a book showing how the Poisson distribution, a discrete probability distribution, can be useful in applied statistics, and he made contributions to mathematical economics.
