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Norwegian-Swedish statistician, economist (1908-1992)

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Herman Ole Andreas Wold was a Swedish mathematician, economist, and statistician who worked in probability theory and economics. Born in Skien on December 25, 1908, he was educated at Stockholm University. He served as a university teacher at Uppsala University and the University of Gothenburg. His doctoral advisor was Harald Cramér, and he supervised doctoral students including Karl Gustav Jöreskog and Peter Whittle.

Wold was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Econometric Society. He died in Gothenburg on February 16, 1992. He spoke English and had a child named Agnes Wold.

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  • The Fix-point approach to interdependent systems
  • Demand analysis
  • Econometric model building
  • Path models with one or two latent variate aggregates
  • A study in the analysis of stationary time series

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Instance of
human
Given name
Andreas
Gender
male
Citizenship
Sweden
Place of birth
Skien
Place of death
Gothenburg
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral advisor
Harald Cramér
Field of work
economics
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Professor Herman Wold, Uppsala, 1969.jpg
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date of birth
1908-12-25
date of death
1992-02-16
birth name
Herman Ole Andreas Wold
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