Chester Ittner Bliss
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For the American politician, see Chester Bliss Bowles.
Chester Ittner Bliss was primarily a biologist, who is most well-known for his contributions to statistics. He was born in Springfield, Ohio in 1899 and died in 1979.
[edit] Academic qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts in Entomology from Ohio State University, 1921
- Master of Arts from Columbia University, 1922
- PhD from Columbia University, 1926
Remarkably, his statistical knowledge was largely self-taught and developed according to the problems he wanted to solve (Cochran & Finney 1979).
[edit] Major contributions
Arguably his most important contribution was the development, with Ronald Fisher, of an iterative approach to finding maximum likelihood estimates in the probit method of bioassay. Additional contributions in biological assay were work on the analysis of time-mortality data and of slope-ratio assays (Cochran & Finney 1979).
Bliss introduced the word rankit, meaning an expected normal order statistic.
[edit] References
- Cochran WG, Finney DJ. 1979 Biometrics; 35(4): 715-717.
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