Carl-Erik Quensel

Swedish statistician and demographer

Carl-Erik Quensel

Born| (1907-10-09)9 October 1907

Malmö, Sweden

Died| 10 April 1977(1977-04-10) (aged 69)
Nationality| Swedish
Alma mater| Lund University
Awards| 4
Scientific career
Fields| Statistics
Institutions| Lund University
Doctoral students| Gunnar Kulldorff

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

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### Early life

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

### Scientific career

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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]

### Major scientific work

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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.

## References

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1. ^ a b Svensk biografisk handbok, 1977, p.830
2. ^ Gerrit J. Stemerdink. "Members of the International Statistical Institute, A cumulative list for the period 1885-2002" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-10-22.[permanent dead link]
3. ^ Kulldorff, 1978

### Sources

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* 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

## External links

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* Carl-Erik Quensel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* WorldCat

National|

* United States
* Netherlands
* Sweden
* Israel

Academics|

* Mathematics Genealogy Project

Other|

* IdRef