Carl-Erik Quensel

Carl-Erik Quensel (9 October 1907 – 10 April 1977) was a Swedish statistician and demographer, specializing in population statistics, statistical distribution theory and biostatistics.

Carl-Erik Quensel was born in Malmö, Sweden, on 9 October 1907, the son of Conrad and Ester Quensel.^[1]

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.^[1] Quensel was an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.^[2] He served as a Swedish delegate to the United Nations Population committee.^[3]

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.

• Blom, Gunnar. "Carl-Erik Quensel". Nationalencyklopedin.
• Kulldorff, Gunnar (1978). "Carl-Erik Quensel, 1907-1977". International Statistical Review. 46 (2): 233–234.
• Svensk Biografisk Handbok (1977), Quensel, Carl-Erik, P.A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, p. 830

• Carl-Erik Quensel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project