Vittorio Castellano

Biography

Vittorio Castellano was born in Naples on June the 29th and studied in Rome first Mathematics and Physics the Statistics. In 1031 he held a position at ISTAT. I933 he became assistant professor at Gini’s chair, however only in 1953 he took up the chair at Rome University teaching Statistics, Sampling Theory and Sociology. His career and life were troubled. In 1937 he was appointed at the Minister of Italian Africa and he left Italy to Eritrea. He conducted the Census of the native population of Eritrea in 1939, and he investigated on demographic development in Eritrea during the fifty years of Italian administration (1947). There he held teaching in Statistics. His contacts with Corrado Gini has always been intensive and collaborative. He was Dean of the Faculty of statistical Sciences (1972–1982), member of CNR(1963–1971) and CUN (1977–1981). He wrote more than 200 publications. His contributions in statistical method and probability are very important, as well as to researches in the demographic and sociological fields. The main arguments of interest have been about means and variability, concentration indices, moments, sampling theory and statistical inference. For a complete biography, see G. Leti, Ricordo di Vittorio Castellano, Statistica, LVIII, 2, 1998.

Research interests

Statistics, social statistics, and sociology

Education

Degree in mathematics at University of Rome in 1929 and Statistical and Actuarial Sciences in 1931.

Academic positions

Professor of Statistics in Rome, since 1953, and in Istanbul (1951–53).

Honours, awards

Member of the American Statistical Association, and of the International Institute of Sociology. Emeritus by University of Rome. Honorary Member of the City University of New York's Academy of the Humanities and Sciences.

Known for

Means and moments, quantitative sociology and anthropometry.

Publications