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David Warsh's avatar

He was a gifted mathematical statistician. As a high school senior, he declined an offer in the field from Brown in order to do economics at Chicago.

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William A. Barnett's avatar

It is interesting to observe that Milton Friedman worked for the government as a statistician during the Second World War. At that time, he originated the famous Friedman Rank Test known to all statisticians.

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He was a gifted mathematical statistician. As a high school senior, he declined an offer in the field from Brown in order to do economics at Chicago

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