Claus Moser, Baron Moser
Overview
Order of the Bath
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, CBE
Order of the British Empire
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(born 24 November 1922 in Berlin
Berlin
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, Germany
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) is a British
United Kingdom
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statistician
Statistician
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who has made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service
Civil service
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. He prides himself rather on being a non-mathematical statistician, and says that the thing that frightened him most in his life was when Maurice Kendall
Maurice Kendall
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asked him to teach a course on analysis of variance
Analysis of variance
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at the LSE
London School of Economics
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.
Claus Moser moved to England
England
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with his parents in 1936.