Background
Vittorio Castellano was born in Naples on June the 29th and studied in Rome first Mathematics and Physics the Statistics.
Vittorio Castellano was born in Naples on June the 29th and studied in Rome first Mathematics and Physics the Statistics.
In 1031 he held a position at ISTAT. 1933 he became assistant professor at Gini’s chair, however only in 1953 he took up the chair at Rome University teaching Statistics, Sampling Theory and Sociology. His career and life were troubled. In 1937 he was appointed at the Minister of Italian Africa and he left Italy to Eritrea.
He conducted the Census of the native population of Eritrea in 1939, and he investigated on demographic development in Eritrea during the fifty years of Italian administration (1947).
There he held teaching in Statistics. His contacts with Corrado Gini has always been intensive and collaborative.
He wrote more than 200 publications. His contributions in statistical method and probability are very important, as well as to researches in the demographic and sociological fields.
The main arguments of interest have been about means and variability, concentration indices, moments, sampling theory and statistical inference.
Foreign a complete biography, see G. Leti, Ricordo di Vittorio Castellano, Statistica, LVIII, 2, 1998.
He was Dean of the Faculty of statistical Sciences (1972–1982), member of National Research Council(1963–1971) and CUN (1977–1981).