George Johnson was a Canadian statistician. He was born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia in 1837. For some years he was the Editor of The Halifax Reporter and was subsequently the Ottawa correspondent for the The Toronto Mail . From 1897 to 1904 he was the Dominion Statistician. He also edited the Canada Year Book from 1886 to 1904. He was the author of a number of works, including The Handbook of Canada and Alphabet of First Things in Canada. He was an honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and died in 1911. [1] [2] [3]
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Mir Masoom Ali is a Bangladeshi American statistician, Distinguished Professor, educator, researcher and author. He migrated to the United States in 1969 and became a naturalized citizen in 1981. Ali founded the graduate and undergraduate programs in statistics at Ball State University. He co-founded the Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop (MBSW-History), held at Ball State University annually since 1978, and co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association. He served as editor and associate editor of several international statistical journals. He is the founding president of the North America Bangladesh Statistical Association (NABSA) and a member of advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet, Bangladesh. In 2002 Ali received the Sagamore of the Wabash Award, the highest award given in the US state of Indiana, by the Governor of Indiana Frank O'Bannon, for his contributions to Ball State University, to higher education in the state, and specifically to the statistics profession.
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