Alexander Aitken, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Aitken

New Zealand mathematician

Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1895

Place of Birth: Dunedin, Otago Region, New Zealand

Date of Death: 03-Nov-1967

Profession: writer, politician, mathematician, university teacher, researcher, statistician

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Alexander Craig "Alec" Aitken (1 April 1895 – 3 November 1967) was one of New Zealand's most eminent mathematicians.
In a 1935 paper he introduced the concept of generalized least squares, along with now standard vector/matrix notation for the linear regression model.
Another influential paper co-authored with his student Harold Silverstone established the lower bound on the variance of an estimator, now known as Cramér–Rao bound.
He was elected to the Royal Society of Literature for his World War I memoir, Gallipoli to the Somme.