Carl-Erik Quensel

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

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

Scientific career 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. He served as a Swedish delegate to the United Nations Population committee.

Major scientific work

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.