Donald Allan Darling

Donald Allan Darling ( born May 4, 1915 in Los Angeles, California) is an American statistician.

Life

He is ( a statistical test that can be determined whether the frequency distribution of data from a sample of a given hypothetical probability distribution deviates ) announced that he had described in 1952 together with Theodore Wilbur Anderson for the Anderson - Darling test.

1934 Darling wrote to the Department of Mathematics of the University of California in Los Angeles, where he became in 1939 the study title. In 1940 he was a meteorologist at the Pan American Airways and from 1942 to 1946, during the Second World War, he headed the Statistical Department of the Air Force Weather Research Project.

Meanwhile, he wrote in 1943 at the Ph.D. course at the California Institute of Technology, where he in 1947, under the direction of Morgan Ward Continuous Stochastic Processes wrote the dissertation. Immediately afterwards, in 1947, he was researcher at Cornell University, and in 1948 he became an assistant at Rutgers University. In 1949 he went to the University of Michigan, where he became a professor later. This university dedicated to him in 2002 a chair.

In 1958 he was a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1958-1961 it was associated editor of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics.

In 1967 he went to the University of California, where he is professor emeritus since 1982.

Article

• With Theodore Wilbur Anderson: Asymptotic Theory of Certain " goodness -of -fit" criteria based on stochastic processes. In: Annals of Mathematical Statistics. Volume 23, 1952, pp. 193-212.
• With Arnold JFSiegert: The First Passage Problem for a Continuous Markov Process. In: The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. Volume 24, No. 4, 1953
• On the asymptotic distribution of Watson's statistic. In: Annals of Statistics. 1983