Mir Maswood Ali

{{Short description|Canadian statistician and mathematician (1929–2009)}}

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|native_name = মীর মসূদ আলী, مير مسعود علي

|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1929|3|12}}

|birth_place = Patuakhali, Backergunge District, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Bangladesh)

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2009|08|18|1929|03|12}}

|death_place = London, Ontario, Canada

|fields = Statistics, Mathematics

|workplaces = University of Western Ontario
Norwich Union Life

|alma_mater = University of Toronto (PhD, 1961)
University of Michigan M.A.
University of Dhaka

|doctoral_advisor = Donald A. S. Fraser

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|known_for = Ali-Mikhail-Haq Copula

Order statistics
Distribution theory
Elliptic distributions
Multivariate statistics
Geometry

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|awards = Qazi Motahar Husain Gold Medal Award (2008)

Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (1953)

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Mir Maswood Ali ({{langx|bn|মীর মসূদ আলী}}; 12 March 1929 – 18 August 2009) was a Canadian statistician and mathematician of Bengali origin. He is known for co-discovering the Ali-Mikhail-Haq copula, which is a topic of active research, both in theory and application. Ali played a key role in establishing the Journal of Statistical Research,

of which the first issue appeared in 1970. The December 2008 issue of the Journal of Statistical Research was dedicated in honor of Ali. In 2008, Ali received the Qazi Motahar Husain Gold Medal Award in recognition of his contributions to statistics.

Ali's research interests in statistics and mathematics included order statistics, distribution theory, characterizations, spherically symmetric and elliptically contoured distributions, multivariate statistics, and n-dimensional geometry. He published articles in well-known statistical journals, such as the Annals of Mathematical Statistics, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, the Journal of Multivariate Analysis, and Biometrika. Two of his most highly rated papers are in geometry, and appeared in the Pacific Journal of Mathematics.

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{{citation |doi=10.2307/2980946 |title=The Expansion of Statistics |journal=Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General) |volume=116 |issue=1 |date=1953 |pages=1–10 |jstor=2980946}}

{{cite journal|url=http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2009/10/01/obituariesoct09/ |title=Mir Maswood Ali |date = October 1, 2009 |journal = AMSTAT News: The Membership Magazine of the American Statistical Association}}

{{cite journal|url=http://www.isrt.ac.bd/sites/default/files/jsrissues/v43n2/1.pdf|title=A LIFE SKETCH OF MIR MASWOOD ALI|journal=Journal of Statistical Research - University of Dacca. Institute of Statistical Research and Training|publisher=Journal of Statistical Research|year=2009|volume=2|number=43|issn=0256-422X}}

{{Cite journal|title = A class of bivariate distributions including the bivariate logistic|journal = Journal of Multivariate Analysis|date = 1978-09-01|pages = 405–412|volume = 8|issue = 3|doi = 10.1016/0047-259X(78)90063-5|first1 = Mir M|last1 = Ali|first2 = N. N|last2 = Mikhail|first3 = M. Safiul|last3 = Haq|doi-access = free}}

{{cite journal |author=Kumar, Pranesh |title=Probability distributions and estimation of Ali-Mikhail-Haq Copula |journal=Applied Mathematical Sciences |volume= 4 |issue=14 |year=2010 |pages=657–666 |url=https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?cluster=14062839959793978184&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5}}

{{Cite journal|title = Universal integrals based on copulas|journal = Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making|date = 2014-02-07|issn = 1568-4539|pages = 273–286|volume = 13|issue = 3|doi = 10.1007/s10700-014-9182-4|first1 = Erich Peter|last1 = Klement|first2 = Radko|last2 = Mesiar|first3 = Fabio|last3 = Spizzichino|first4 = Andrea|last4 = Stupňanová| s2cid=254513583 }}

{{Cite journal|title = Efficiently sampling nested Archimedean copulas|journal = Computational Statistics & Data Analysis|date = 2011-01-01|pages = 57–70|volume = 55|issue = 1|doi = 10.1016/j.csda.2010.04.025|first = Marius|last = Hofert}}

{{Cite journal|title = Likelihood inference for Archimedean copulas in high dimensions under known margins|journal = Journal of Multivariate Analysis|date = 2012-09-01|pages = 133–150|volume = 110|series = Special Issue on Copula Modeling and Dependence|doi = 10.1016/j.jmva.2012.02.019|first1 = Marius|last1 = Hofert|first2 = Martin|last2 = Mächler|first3 = Alexander J.|last3 = McNeil|citeseerx = 10.1.1.755.7524}}

{{Cite web|url = https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/copula/vignettes/rhoAMH-dilog.pdf|title = Spearman's Rho for the AMH Copula: A Beautiful Formula|date = June 2014|access-date = |website = cran.r-project.org|publisher = ETH Zurich|last = Mächler|first = Martin}}

{{Cite journal|title = Bivariate Distribution Modeling of Tree Diameters and Heights: Dependency Modeling Using Copulas|url = http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/saf/fs/2008/00000054/00000003/art00004|journal = Forest Science|date = 2008-06-01|pages = 284–293|volume = 54|issue = 3|first1 = Mingliang|last1 = Wang|first2 = Keith|last2 = Rennolls|first3 = Shouzheng|last3 = Tang}}

{{Cite journal|title = The Shape of Neural Dependence|url = https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6789533|journal = Neural Computation|date = 2004-04-01|issn = 0899-7667|pages = 665–672|volume = 16|issue = 4|doi = 10.1162/089976604322860659|pmid = 15025825|first1 = R|last1 = Jenison|first2 = R|last2 = Reale| s2cid=18979705 }}

{{Cite journal|title = CDO pricing with nested Archimedean copulas|journal = Quantitative Finance|date = 2011-05-01|pages = 775–787|volume = 11|issue = 5|doi = 10.1080/14697680903508479|first1 = Marius|last1 = Hofert|first2 = Matthias|last2 = Scherer| s2cid=7272141 }}

{{Cite web|title = R: Ali-Mikhail-Haq ("AMH")'s and Joe's Kendall's tau|url = http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/r-help/library/copula/html/tauAMH.html|website = artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz|access-date = 2015-09-21}}

{{cite web|url=http://www.isi-web.org/faq/faqs/15-nlet/nlet/12-isinewsletter-2009-3?showall=&start=8|title=In Memoriam: Mir Maswood Ali (1929-2009)|publisher=The International Statistical Institute|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925112810/http://www.isi-web.org/faq/faqs/15-nlet/nlet/12-isinewsletter-2009-3?showall=&start=8|archive-date=2015-09-25}}

{{cite journal | doi=10.2140/pjm.1970.33.1 | title =On some extremal simplexes | author = Mir Maswood Ali | journal = Pacific Journal of Mathematics | volume = 33 | year = 1970 | issue = 1 | pages= 1–14 | doi-access = free}}

{{cite journal | doi= 10.2140/pjm.1973.48.313 | title = Content of the frustum of a simplex | author = Mir Maswood Ali | journal = Pacific Journal of Mathematics | volume = 48 | year = 1973 | issue = 1 | pages= 313–322 | doi-access = free}}

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Category:Canadian statisticians

Category:Canadian mathematicians

Category:Canadian Muslims

Category:Bengali Muslims

Category:Canadian people of Bengali descent

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Category:1929 births

Category:University of Michigan alumni