| LC control no. | n 99009858 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hall, Peter, 1951-2016 |
| Variant(s) | Hall, P. (Peter), 1951-2016 Hall Peter (Peter Gavin), 1951-2016 Hall, Peter Gavin, 1951-2016 Hall, Peter, 1951- |
| Associated country | Australia |
| Birth date | 1951-11-20 |
| Death date | 2016-01-09 |
| Place of birth | Sydney (N.S.W.) |
| Place of death | Melbourne (Vic.) |
| Field of activity | Probabilities Mathematical statistics |
| Found in | Martingale limit theory ... 1980: t.p. (P. Hall, CSIRO, Canberra, Aust. [taken from non-unique NAR]) Rates of convergence in the central limit ... 1982: CIP t.p. (Peter Hall) verso bk t.p. (Aust. CIP info: Hall, Peter, 1951- ) Wikipedia, viewed August 12, 2013 (Peter Gavin Hall FAA FRS AO (born 20 November 1951) is an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics. He earned his Doctorate at the University of Oxford in 1976) Marquis Who's Who online, viewed August 29, 2019 (Peter Gavin Hall; Born: Sydney, Australia, November 20, 1951; Occupation: statistics educator; Education: BSc, Sydney University, 1974; MSc, Australian National University, 1976; DPhil, Oxford University, 1976; DSc (hon.), Catholic University Louvain, Belgium, 1997; Career: Lecturer statistics, Melbourne (Australia) University, 1976-78; From lecturer to reader statistics, Australian National University, Canberra, 1978-88; Professor statistics, Australian National University, Canberra, 1988-; Author: The Bootstrap and Edgeworth Expansion, 1992) Wikipedia, viewed August 29, 2019 (Peter Gavin Hall (20 November 1951 - 9 January 2016) was an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics. The American Statistical Association described him as one of the most influential and prolific theoretical statisticians in the history of the field. The School of Mathematics and Statistics Building at The University of Melbourne was renamed the Peter Hall building in his honour on 9 December 2016. Hall was an author in probability and statistics. Mathscinet lists him with 606 publications as of January 2016. Peter Hall was born to radiophysics and radio astronomy pioneer Ruby Payne-Scott and telephone technician William Holman Hall. His younger sister is artistic photographer and sculptor, Fiona Margaret Hall. Hall was a keen photographer with a special interest in train photography. He enjoyed travel and was a regular visitor to many universities around the world. He died of leukaemia in Melbourne on 9 January 2016. He is survived by his wife, Jeannie.) |
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