Samuel Kotz
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Samuel Kotz is the capital and largest city of Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China, lying on the southern bank of the Songhua River...
, China
China
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– 16 March 2010, Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring, Maryland
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, USA) was a Professor and Research Scholar in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University since 1997 until his death on March 16, 2010. He was an author or editor of several standard reference works in statistics
Statistics
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and probability theory
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Education
Samuel Kotz studied electrical engineeringElectrical engineering
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at the Harbin Institute of Technology, graduating with honors in 1946. He obtained an M.A. with honors in Mathematics
Mathematics
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in 1956 from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Mathematical Statistics
Mathematical statistics
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from Cornell University
Cornell University
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Career
In 1964 he joined the University of TorontoUniversity of Toronto
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as Associate Professor. He then moved to Temple University
Temple University
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, Philadelphia as a Professor of Mathematics in 1967 and the University of Maryland
University of Maryland
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, College Park as a Professor in the College of Business and Management in 1979. In 1997 he joined the Operations Research Department at George Washington University
George Washington University
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. His visiting positions included Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University
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, Bucknell University
Bucknell University
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, Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology
The Harbin Institute of Technology , or HIT, is colloquially known as Hagongda . It is a research university in the city of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China....
, Luleå University of Technology
Luleå University of Technology
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, Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University
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, and University of Guelph
University of Guelph
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Publications
He and Norman L. Johnson founded the Encyclopedia of Statistical SciencesEncyclopedia of Statistical Sciences
The Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences is the largest-ever encyclopaedia of statistics. It is published by John Wiley & Sons.The first edition, in nine volumes, was edited by Norman Lloyd Johnson and Samuel Kotz and appeared in 1982. The second edition, in 16 volumes, was published in 2006. ...
(1982–1999) of which he was editor-in-chief. He was also a co-author of the four-volume Compendium on Statistical Distributions (First Edition 1969-1972, Second Edition 1993-1997). Over the course of his career he authored or co-authored a total of three Russian-English scientific dictionaries, over three dozen volumes/books/monographs in the field of statistics and quality control and over 280 papers.
Honors
Samuel Kotz was awarded honorary doctorates from Harbin Institute of TechnologyHarbin Institute of Technology
The Harbin Institute of Technology , or HIT, is colloquially known as Hagongda . It is a research university in the city of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China....
in 1982, University of Athens in 1995 and Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green State University
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in 1997. He was a Fellow of the American Statistical Association
American Statistical Association
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, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
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, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
Royal Statistical Society
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and Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute
International Statistical Institute
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Samuel Kotz has an Erdős number
Erdos number
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See also
- Saralees Nadarajah (2004) A Conversation with Samuel Kotz, Statistical Science, 17, 2, 220–233. http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.ss/1030550863