By james art 
Retired Professor of Statistics at Florida University Miles Hollander – also a respected researcher and man of the Renaissance – has died. He was 83.
Born in Brooklyn, New York died on Monday due to a short illness, but remembered many who had known him during his 42-year career at FSU, as well as relatives who knew him beyond his academic impact.
“He taught me that the love of the family crosses the home slab first while everything else sits in the dugout,” said Bart Hollander, the smallest of the two sons of Hollander, “a big baseball fan told the Talahassi Democrat for his father.
Hollander received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Carnegie Technology Institute in Pennsylvania in 1961 before winning both master and doctoral degrees by Stanford University in California in 1962 and 1965. He married the late Glee Hollander in 1963 D. while completing his doctoral research.
When Hollander moved to Talahasi in 1965, he joined the FSU the same year, where he became a professor of statistics and later chaired the department during two terms for a total of nine years.
In addition, he was awarded the title Robert O. Lawton, an excellent professor – the highest honor, the FSU Faculty could give one of its own members – in 1998 and he retired in 2007.
Throughout Hollander’s career, he has made significant contributions to research in fields, including non -parametric statistics, reliability theory, survival analysis, biostatics and probability theory, posting over 100 documents on different topics.
“Miles was a real polymamy – one of those people of the Renaissance who knew a lot about everything,” said Poet and FSU Robert O. Lawton, saying professor of English David Kirby. “History, physics, baseball, ballroom dancing, you name a theme and Miles will take you on it.”
At the parties “I would talk to him for hours about my specialty, which is poetry,” he added. “I don’t know anything about the statistics, so he will meet me on earth and keep his own there, always with the greatest grace and humility. Miles was the worst of the gentle souls. ”
In addition to teaching, baseball is one of the things Hollander loved. His most big son Line Hollander recalled how he often said that as a child he would arrive early in Ebbet Field in Brooklyn, New York to watch his beloved player – Jackie Robinson – and Brooklyn Dodgers are working before scoring the game by hand by hand.
But the university where he had taught for more than 40 years had a special place in the heart of Hollander. “My father loved teaching, research, statistics and everything about FSU and Talahassi,” Lane Hollander said. “He was cleaning his family and friends deeply.”
During Hollander at FSU, he also created the distinctive lectures of Myles Hollander, which is an annual lecture recognizing an internationally renowned leader and pioneer researcher on statistics.
Other Hollander’s performances and achievements included as the theory and methods editor of the magazine of the American Statistical Association (ASA) from 1993 to 1996 and receiving the ASA Gottfriad Noether senior award in 2003.
FSU Psychology Professor Thomas Waller – another Robert O. Lawton distinguished the professor at the university – has known Hollander for more than 20 years and described him as a kind of person who has never resting on his laurels, but still “remains humble all the time.”
“He only in my eyes more and more in the personification of a professor,” says Joller, who is also the director of the FSU psychology clinic. “He was the species that we all should try to be, regardless of the specialty. Even among the selected several Lawton teachers, we all looked at him. ”
Details of funeral arrangements have not yet been announced.
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