Washington Jewish Week, February 16th, 2006
Lester R. Frankel of Potomac, a statistician who was a pioneer in labor force surveys and who was active in Jewish organizational life while living in New York, died Feb. 11. He was 92. Born in New York City, Frankel graduated from Stuyvesant High School and New York University where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1934. He studied under one of the founders of modern statistics, Harold Hotelling, at Columbia University. His master's research resulted in the development of a now commonly used technique of statistical transformation. Frankel moved to Washington, D.C., in 1936 when he joined t...
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