Salem Hanna Khamis
Palestinian statistician and UN official (1919–2005) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Salem Hanna Khamis (Arabic: سالم حنا خميس) (November 22, 1919 – June 16, 2005) was a Palestinian economic statistician for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization who helped formalise the Geary-Khamis method of computing purchasing power parity of currencies.
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Born | (1919-11-22)November 22, 1919 |
Died | June 16, 2005(2005-06-16) (aged 85) |
Nationality | Palestinian, British |
Academic career | |
Institution | American University of Beirut |
Field | International Statistician |
Alma mater | Arab College in Jerusalem, American University of Beirut, University College London |
Contributions | Geary–Khamis dollar, Sampling theory, tabulation of the Incomplete gamma function, wrote “Tables of the Incomplete Gamma Function Ratio”. |
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