Wilhelm Lexis
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Wilhelm Lexis (17 July 1837, Eschweiler, Germany – 24 August 1914, Göttingen, Germany), full name Wilhelm Hector Richard Albrecht Lexis,[1] was a German statistician, economist, and social scientist. The Oxford Dictionary of Statistics cites him as a "pioneer of the analysis of demographic time series".[2] Lexis is largely remembered for two items that bear his name—the Lexis ratio and the Lexis diagram.
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Wilhelm Lexis | |
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Born | Wilhelm Hector Richard Albrecht Lexis (1837-07-17)17 July 1837 |
Died | 24 August 1914(1914-08-24) (aged 77) |
Citizenship | German |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Social scientist |
Doctoral advisor | August Beer[1] |
Doctoral students | Ladislaus Bortkiewicz[1] |
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