Wilhelm Lexis
German statistician and economist
Died when: 77 years 100 days (927 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Wilhelm Lexis (17 July 1837, Eschweiler, Germany – 24 August 1914, Göttingen, Germany), full name Wilhelm Hector Richard Albrecht Lexis, was a German statistician, economist, and social scientist.
The Oxford Dictionary of Statistics cites him as a "pioneer of the analysis of demographic time series".Lexis is largely remembered for two items that bear his name—the Lexis ratio and the Lexis diagram.
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