Carl-Erik Quensel


Carl-Erik Quensel 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
. Quensel was an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. 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.