| Warren Milton Persons | |
| Birth Date: | 1878 |
| Death Date: | October 11, 1937 |
| Education: | University of Wisconsin |
| Occupation: | Economist |
| Spouse: | Irmagarde Keller |
Warren M. Persons (1878–1937) was an American economist. He was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, and a professor of economics at Colorado College and Harvard University. He was the President of the American Statistical Association in 1923.
Warren M. Persons was born in 1878.[1] He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1899, and he earned a PhD in economics in 1916.[2]
Persons taught economics at the University of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1906.[2] He was an assistant professor of economics at Dartmouth College from 1906 to 1910.[2] He was a professor of economics at Colorado College from 1913 to 1918, and at Harvard University from 1918 to 1928.[2] He was also the editor of The Review of Economics and Statistics.[2]
Persons became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1914, and its president in 1923.[2]
Persons married Irmagarde Keller in 1906.[2] He fell ill with tuberculosis in 1910 and survived in 1913.[2]
Persons died on October 11, 1937.[1] [2]
. Friedman. Walter A.. Walter A. Friedman. Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters. 2014. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. 9780691159119. 128–165. 858778194. Chapter 4: C.J. Bullock and Warren Persons: The Harvard ABC Chart. "The Statistician... attempts to find an analogy existing in an orderly universe".