Mosteller, Frederick

(b. 1916). Ph.D., M.A., Princeton University; M.S., B.S., Carnegie Institute of Technology.

Mosteller is Roger I. Lee Professor of Mathematical Statistics and Professor Emeritus of Statistics at Harvard University. He has chaired the Departments of Statistics, Biostatistics, Social Relations, and Health Policy and Management at Harvard University, making him the only person in Harvard's history to serve as chair of four different departments. He directs the Center for Evaluation of the Initiatives [Page 261]for Children Project at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he was named a Fellow in 1954. He is also a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, American Statistical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society for Quality Control, American Sociological Association, and an ...