60 let statistiky na Vysoké škole ekonomické v Praze

60 Years of Statistics at the University of Economics, Prague

Prokop Závodský

Politická ekonomie, 2013, vol. 2013, issue 4, 515-535

Abstract: For all 60 years of the existence of the University of Economics, Prague (UEP) was statistics one of the taught compulsory course, and here also took place the specialized studies of statistics, which predecessor was Statistical and Actuarial engineering at the University of Special Sciences (within the Czech Technical University). The article focuses on the 50's, when at the UEP existed the independent Faculty of Statistics and when the lessons of statistics were difficulty exempted from the Stalinist dogmatism. Between the personalities is mentioned prof. Benedikt Korda (1914-2010), who was the most famous person in the first period of Faculty, (there will be mentioned his remarkable CV), prof. Lubomír Cyhelský (*1929), who was the head of the department in 1962-1990, and prof. Jiří Likeš (1929-1994) as well, who was internationally acclaimed scientists in the theory of probability and mathematical statistics, whose name is used for one of the greatest lecture hall at the University. Since 1991 there exist at the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics the Department of Statistics and Probability (17 internal teachers and 13 internal PhD students), the Department of Economic Statistics (6 + 3) and the Department of Demography (6 + 4).

Keywords: Prague; University of Economics; The Commercial College; University of Special Sciences; Department of Statistics and Probability; history of statistics; university studies of statistics; Benedikt Korda; Lubomír Cyhelský; Jiří Likeš (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A22 B23 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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