哈羅德·霍特林

哈羅德·霍特林（，）為數理統計學者、具重要影響力的經濟理論學者。

生平
1927年起，他擔任史丹佛大學數學系副教授。1931年到1946年期間，任職哥倫比亞大學。1946年起，在北卡羅來納大學教堂山分校數理統計系任教，直到他去世。教堂山有一條街道和他的名字有關。1972年，因對科學的貢獻獲頒 North Carolina Award。

當他在華盛頓大學就讀時，受知名數學家埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔的鼓舞，從數學轉換到經濟學領域。後來，他四十多歲在哥倫比亞大學任教時，換他鼓舞他的學生肯尼斯·約瑟夫·阿羅，從數學和統計領域轉換到精算學科，朝數學在經濟理論中更廣泛應用之路邁進。

著作 
 "A General Mathematical Theory of Depreciation", 1925, Journal of ASA.
 "Differential Equations Subject to Error", 1927, Journal of ASA
 "Applications of the Theory of Error to the Interpretation of      Trends", with H. Working, 1929,     Journal of ASA.
 "Stability in Competition", 1929, EJ.
 "The Economics of Exhaustible Resources", 1931, JPE.
 "The Generalization of Student's Ratio", 1931, Annals of     Mathematical Statistics.
 "Edgeworth's Taxation Paradox and the Nature of Supply and Demand      Functions", 1932, JPE.
 "Analysis of a Complex of Statistical Variables with Principal      Components",1933, Journal of Educational Psychology
 "Demand Functions with Limited Budgets", 1935, Econometrica.
 "The most predictable criterion", 1935, Journal of Educational Psychology
 "Relation Between Two Sets of Variates", 1936, Biometrika.
 "Rank Correlation and Tests of Significance Involving no Assumption of Normality", in "American Mathematical Statistics", 1936 (coauthor M. R. Pabst)
 "The General Welfare in Relation to Problems of Taxation and of   Railway and Utility Rates", 1938, Econometrica.
 "A generalized T-Test and measure of multivariate dispersion", Proc. Second Berkeley Symposium of Mathematical Statistics and Probability, 1951

參考資料 
Kenneth J. Arrow, 1987, “Hotelling ,Harold" The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 2, pp. 670–71.

 I. Olkina and A. R. Sampsonb (2001). "Hotelling, Harold (1895–1973)," International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, pp. 6921–6925. Abstract.

外部連結 
New School: Harold Hotelling
American Statistical Association: Harold Hotelling

These entries have photographs. There is another at
Harold Hotelling on the Portraits of Statisticians page.

For Hotelling's PhD students see
Harold Hotelling on the Mathematics Genealogy Project page.

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