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And then he continued to establish himself as a scholar in Mathematical Statistics and
Actuarial Science. (Hogg, 2003, 3
rd
paragraph)
Doctoral Students
Reitz, a mathematician, had at least 14 dissertation students at the University of Iowa
(Math, 2011; ProQuest, 2011).
1.
John Franklin Reilly, 1921, Certain Generalizations of Osculatory Interpolation
2.
Frank Weida, 1923, The Valuation of Life Annuities with Refund of an Arbitrarily
Assigned Part of the Purchase Price
3.
Clarence de Witt Smith, 1928,
On Generalized Tchebycheff Inequalities in Mathematical
Statistics
4.
Herbert Albert Meyer, 1929,
On Certain Inequalities, with Applications in Actuarial
Theory
5.
Samuel Wilks, 1931,
On the Distributions of Statistics in Samples from a Normal
Population of Two Variables with Matched Sampling of One Variable
6.
Allen Thornton Craig, 1931,
On the Distributions of Certain Statistics
7.
Carl Fischer, 1932, On Correlation Surfaces of Sums with a Certain Number of Random
Elements in Common
[Dissertation not
listed in ProQuest (2011) database]
8.
Arthur Ollivier, 1935, Some
Mathematical Developments
Underlying the Analysis of General
Death
9.
Floyd S. Harper, 1936,
An Actuarial
Study of Infant Mortality
10.
Abraham C. Olshen, 1937,
Transformations of the Pearson Type
III Distribution
11.
Lloyd A. Knowler, 1937,
Actuarial
Aspects of Recent Old Age Security
Legislation
12.
Franklin E. Satterthwaite, 1941 (or
1942 per ProQuest (2011)),
Developments on the Theory of Chi-
Square
13.
William Darragh Berg, 1941 (or 1942
per ProQuest (2011)), Theorems on
Certain Type-A Difference-Equation
Graduations
14.
Louis Garfin, 1942,
On Pension Fund
Reserves
Reitz’s second doctoral student
(Weida) continues the advisor genealogy of
this paper.
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Frank Mark Weida
Frank Mark Weida was the son of the Rev. George Francis Weida. George was appointed
Bowler Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Kenyon College in 1907 (Greenslade, 2011).
Education
Weida graduated from Kenyon College in 1913 (Greenslade, 2011) and received his
Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1923. The title of his 35-page dissertation was The
Valuation of Life Annuities with Refund of an Arbitrarily Assigned Part of the Purchase Price
(Proquest, 2011). A copy of his dissertation’s title page can be seen near this paragraph.
Research and Teaching
In his paper: On the history of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Iowa
Robert Hogg (2003) states
The reason I want to mention Frank Weida is because when he left here, he went to
George Washington University. And in 1935 he established the first Department of
Statistics as we know it. There were statistical groups in Business, but this was the first
Department of Statistics in Liberal Arts and/or Science…. And so THIS was the first
Department of Statistics. (Hogg, 2003, 6
th
paragraph)
Weida authored or co-authored several books, including Statistics with application to
highway traffic analysis;
and Statistical inference, reliability, and significance.
Doctoral Students
Weida, a mathematician, had at least 11 Ph.D. and Ed.D dissertation students at the
George Washington University (GWU, 2011).
1.
Solomon Kullback, Ph.D., 1934, An Application of Characteristic Functions to the
Distribution Problem of Statistics
2.
Harold Glen Clark, Ed.D., (Weida with other advisors), 1942,
An Occupational Study of
Personnel Workers in Selected Agencies of the Federal Government
3.
Joseph Bueol Johnson, Ed. D., (Weida with other advisors), 1946,
The Problems Involved
in the Administration of an Audio-Visual Program
4.
Walter William Jacobs, Ph.D., 1951,
Random Matrices
5.
Dalton Houston Wright, Ph.D., 1953, Survival Probability
6.
Robert Tynes Smith III, Ph.D., 1956, A Stochastic Model for Economic Time Series
7.
Hartley Linwood Pond, Ph.D., 1957, Some Relations Between Input and Output Power
Spectra in Certain Nonlinear Systems
8.
Chester Hayden McCall Jr., Ph.D., 1957,
On Sequential Analysis as Applied to the
Poisson and Pearson Type III Distributions
9.
Harry Weingarten, Ph.D., 1959,
The Law of Large Numbers and Related Theorems
10.
Selig Starr, Ph.D., 1961,
Some Algebraic Aspect of the Analysis of Variance