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The life of Georg Rasch as a mathematician and as a statistician. (English) Zbl 1024.01504

Boomsma, Anne (ed.) et al., Essays on item response theory. New York, NY: Springer. Lect. Notes Stat. 157, 3-24 (2001).
Summary: An account of the life of Georg Rasch as a mathematician and as a statistician is given, with emphasis on the years 1952 to 1960 when the Rasch model was developed and justified by requirements of proper measurement. But Rasch’s life before 1952 is also described, especially how he, forced by the employment situation in Denmark, had to turn to statistics after having graduated and defended his doctoral dissertation in pure mathematics. Finally, it is discussed at some length how Rasch, especially after 1960, formulated his requirements of proper measurement into the formalized concept of specific objectivity.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 0958.00014].

MSC:

01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies
62-03 History of statistics

Keywords:

Biography

Biographic References:

Rasch, G.
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