Background
Carl-Erik Quensel was born in Malmö, Sweden on 9 October 1907, the son of Conrad and Ester Quensel.
Carl-Erik Quensel was born in Malmö, Sweden on 9 October 1907, the son of Conrad and Ester Quensel.
In 1935 Qunsel earned a licentiate degree from the Department of Statistics at Lund University, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1938.
Scientific career
In 1941, he was appointed professor of Statistics at Lund UnIversity. He served as a Swedish delegate to the United Nations Population committee. Major scientific work
A Method of Determining the Regression Curve When the Marginal Distribution is of the Normal Logarithmic Type, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 7:196-201, 1936.
Second moment and of the Correlation Coefficient in Samples from Populations of Type A, The Statistical Institute at the University of Lund.
Lund, C. West. K. Gleerup/Leipzig, Otto Harrassowitz, 1938. Lärobok i den teoretiska statistikens grunder, Lund 1944.
Befolkningsframskrivningar för Hälsingborgs stad 1945 – 1975, Lund, 1949. Studenternas utbildningsval, tillsammans medical Bo Israelsson, Lund, 1958.
Quensel was an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.