Herman Otto Hartley (born Herman Otto Hirschfeld; 1912–1980) was a German American statistician. He developed Hartley's test for equality of variances (published in 1950). In 1953 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. In 1967 he and J.N.K. Rao published a maximum likelihood method for finding variance components in mixed models. He made significant contributions in mathematical programming, optimization, and survey sampling. He also founded Texas A&M University's Department of Statistics.
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1912 1912
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1980 (aged 67)
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