| Bib ID |
79085 |
| Format |
Audio, Online - Google Books |
| Author |
Horner, F. B. (Frank Benson), 1917-
|
| Access Conditions |
Access open for research, personal copies and public use. |
| Description |
1984.
2 sound cassette.
|
| Summary |
Dr. Frank Horner, a statistician, provides a brief description of his early life and education and then he talks about his economics course done of an evening at Sydney University while working at the NSW Bureau of Statistics. He then talks about the work he did in 1940 when "on loan" to the Commonwealth Treasury; resumption of scholarship at end of war to study at London School of Economics; returned to Sydney State Bureau to develop a number of new fields of statistics and in 1958 came to Canberra to Commonwealth Bureau of Statistics. Horner discusses Sir Stanley Carver's career as State and Commonwealth Statistician. He also talks about his work on the Vernon Committee and the changes and developments he has seen in the field of statistics.
|
| Notes |
Part of the research for their history of Australian statisticians and statistics.
Recorded on Feb. 7, 1984.
|
| Index/Finding Aid Note |
Corrected transcript available (typescript, 35 leaves). |
| Subjects |
Horner, F. B. - (Frank Benson), - 1917- - Interviews. | Carver, S. R. - Anecdotes. | Statisticians - Australia - Interviews.
|
| Occupation |
Statisticians. |
| Other Authors |
Hazlehurst, Cameron, 1941- | Forster, Colin, 1926-
|