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Apr 01, 1895 Dunedin, Otago Region, New Zealand Died on 03 Nov 1967 (aged 72)
New Zealand mathematician
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About Alexander Aitken
- 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.
