Career
He developed the Sichel-t Estimator for the Log-normal distribution"s t-statistic. He also made great leaps in the area of the Generalized Inverse Gaussian Distribution which became known as the Sichel Distribution. Doctor Sichel pioneered the science of geostatistics with Danie Krige in the early 1950s.
Sichel also was well recognised in the field of statistical linguistics.
He established the Operational Research Bureau in 1952. He was appointed as professor in Statistics and Operations Research in the Graduate Business School of the University of the Witwatersrand.
He has been recognized as "one of the grand old men of the Société Anonyme Statistical Association". The Herbert Sichel medal was established in 1997 and is awarded annually to the best statistics paper published in a South African journal in the previous year.
