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Sir Gilbert Walker and a connection between El Niño and statistics. (English) Zbl 1032.01521

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01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies
60G35 Signal detection and filtering (aspects of stochastic processes)
62P12 Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics
62-03 History of statistics

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Walker, Gilbert Thomas
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