Contributions to statistics

This article explores Georg Rasch’s life prior to his development of the Rasch models. It will be described how Rasch in his youth studied mathematics, and how he at the quite young age of 30 defended his doctoral thesis. As it was, there was no available positions in mathematics for Rasch and he turned towards statistics. He was granted a scholarship to study statistics with R.A. Fisher; a circumstance that influenced the progress of statistics in Denmark. Rasch’s main occupation before he published the Rasch models will also be described at some length. He worked as a statistical consultant, and through his empirical work he developed a habit of developing whatever statistical tools he needed for the analysis.

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[2]  A. Agresti,et al.  Some exact conditional tests of independence forR ×C cross-classification tables , 1977 .

[3]  Edward F. Alf,et al.  An Alternate Multinomial Assessment of the Accuracy of the χ2 Test of Goodness of Fit , 1975 .

[4]  G. Rasch.  OBJEKTIVITET I SAMFUNDSVIDENSKABERNE ET METODEPROBLEM , 1972 .

[5]  Axel Mossin.  A Mean Demand Function and Individual Demand Functions Confronted with the Weak and the Strong Axioms of Revealed Preference: An Empirical Test , 1972 .

[6]  G. Rasch,et al.  A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF OBJECTIVITY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FOR MODEL CONSTRUCTION , 1968 .

[7]  G. Rasch,et al.  An item analysis which takes individual differences into account. , 1966, The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology.

[8]  John Neter,et al.  Fundamental Statistics for Business and Economics , 1973 .

[9]  G Constantinescu,et al.  Professor Dr. , 1965, La Sante publique.

[10]  G. Rasch.  On General Laws and the Meaning of Measurement in Psychology , 1961 .

[11]  C. R. Rao,et al.  Some statistical methods for comparison of growth curves. , 1958 .

[12]  O. Scherbaum,et al.  Cell size distribution and single cell growth in Tetrahymena pyriformis GL. , 2009, Acta pathologica et microbiologica Scandinavica.

[13]  K. Arentsen.  AN INVESTIGATION OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE METHOD BY MEANS OF THE CORNELL INDEX (FORM N2) I , 1957, Acta psychiatrica et neurologica Scandinavica.

[14]  Anders Hald,et al.  Statistical Theory with Engineering Applications , 1952 .

[15]  The Preparation of Solutions Isoosmotic with Blood, Tears and Tissue , 1948 .

[16]  G. Rasch.  A Functional Equation for Wishart's Distribution , 1948 .

[17]  G. Rasch,et al.  Examination of children from children's homes and day-nurseries by the Bühler-Hetzer development tests , 1947 .

[18]  J. E. Kerrich.  An Experimental Introduction to the Theory of probability , 1946, Nature.

[19]  H. Boerner,et al.  Zur Theorie und Anwendung des Produktintegrals. , 1934 .

[20]  C. Pantin.  Problems of Relative Growth , 1932, Nature.

[21]  Notes on the Gamma-Function , 1931 .

[22]  K. Blunt,et al.  THE BASAL METABOLISM OF GIRLS , 1926 .