Background
Madansky, Albert was born on May 16, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Harry and Anna (Meidenberg) Madansky.
(The first course in statistics, no matter how "good" or "...)
The first course in statistics, no matter how "good" or "long" it is, typically covers inferential procedures which are valid only if a number of preconditions are satisfied by the data. For example, students are taught about regression procedures valid only if the true residuals are independent, homoscedastic, and normally distributed. But they do not learn how to check for indepen dence, homoscedasticity, or normality, and certainly do not learn how to adjust their data and/or model so that these assumptions are met. To help this student out! I designed a second course, containing a collec tion of statistical diagnostics and prescriptions necessary for the applied statistician so that he can deal with the realities of inference from data, and not merely with the kind of classroom problems where all the data satisfy the assumptions associated with the technique to be taught. At the same time I realized that I was writing a book for a wider audience, namely all those away from the classroom whose formal statistics education ended with such a course and who apply statistical techniques to data.
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Madansky, Albert was born on May 16, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Harry and Anna (Meidenberg) Madansky.
AB, University of Chicago, 1952; Master of Science, University of Chicago, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1958.
Mathematician, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California, 1957-1965; senior vice president, Interpub. Group of Companies, New York City, 1965-1968; president, Dataplan Inc, New York City, 1968-1970; professor computer science, City College of New York, 1970-1976; professor business administration graduate school, University of Chicago, since 1976; associate dean, University of Chicago, 1985-1990; deputy dean, University of Chicago, 1990-1993; H.G.B. Alexander professor business administrator, University of Chicago, since 1996. Board directors Analytic Services, Washington, since 1975.
(The first course in statistics, no matter how "good" or "...)
(Advanced Textbooks in Economics, Volume 7: Foundations of...)
Fellow: Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematics Statistics, Econometric Society.
Married Paula Barkan, June 10, 1990. Children from previous marriage: Susan, Cynthia, Noreen, Michele.