Arthur Lyon Bowley

Arthur Lyon Bowley
Nascimento	6 de novembro de 1869 (Bristol
Morte	21 de janeiro de 1957 (87 anos) Surrey
Nacionalidade	Inglês
Alma mater	Universidade de Cambridge
Prêmios	Medalha Guy (prata, 1895; ouro, 1935)
Instituições	London School of Economics
Campo(s)	Economia

Arthur Lyon Bowley (Bristol, 6 de novembro de 1869 – Surrey, 21 de janeiro de 1957) foi um estatístico e economista inglês, que trabalhou com estatística econômica e foi pioneiro no uso da técnica de amostragem em pesquisa social.

Publicações principais de A.L. Bowley

• A Short Account of England's Foreign Trade in the Nineteenth Century, 1893.
• Wages and Income in the United Kingdom Since 1860, 1900.
• Elements of Statistics, 1901. (4th edition in 1920)
• An Elementary Manual of Statistics, 1909.
• Livelihood and Poverty: a study in the economic conditions of working-class households, with A.R. Bennett-Hurst, 1915.
• The Division of the Product of Industry, 1919
• The Mathematical Groundwork of Economics, 1924.
• Has Poverty Diminished? with M.Hogg, 1925.
• Measurement of Precision attained in Sampling, Bulletin de l'Institut International de Statistique,(1926) 22, Suppl. to Book 1, 1–62. Gallica (after p. 451)
• The National Income 1924 with J. Stamp, 1927.
• Bilateral Monopoly, 1928, Economic Journal.
• F. Y. Edgeworth's Contributions to Mathematical Statistics, 1928.
• New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1930–35.
• Family Expenditure with R.G.D. Allen, 1935.
• Three Studies in National Income, 1939.

Bibliografia

• Allen, R.D.G.; George, R. F. (1957). «Obituary of Professor Sir Arthur Bowley». Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. 102: 236–241 
• W F Maunder e Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley (1869–1957) in Studies in the History of Statistics Probability, (ed. E S Pearson and M G Kendall) 1970. London: Griffin.
• Darnell, A. (1981), «A.L. Bowley, 1969-1957», in: O'Brien, D. P.; Presley, J. R., Pioneers of Modern Economics in Britain, London: Macmillan, pp. 140–174 .
• Bowley, Arthur Lyon, pp. 277–9 in Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, (ed. N. L. Johnson and S. Kotz) 1997. New York: Wiley. Originally published in Encyclopedia of Statistical Science.

Ver também

• Diagrama de ramos e folhas atribuído ao trabalho de Bowley

Ligações externas

• Horizons March 2005: Stats in History—Arthurian Legend
• Bowley Papers at the LSE Archives
• New School: Arthur Lyon Bowley

The New School entry has a photograph. There is another at

• Bowley on the Portraits of Statisticians page.

In the 4th edition of the Elements (1920) Bowley gave a lot more space to statistical theory. The following excerpt illustrates his approach

• Bowley's Pearsonian approach to chi-squared on the Life and Work of Statisticians page.

This was written just before Bowley got involved in the controversy between Fisher and Pearson on chi-squared. In the fifth edition (1926) Bowley added a reference to his own contribution.

For Bowley's contribution to sampling theory put in historical perspective see

• Part D: A Review of Statistical Sampling from Laplace to Neyman