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Arthur Walner
Arthur H. walner was a member of the professional staffs of the Navy, Army, EPA, General Services and Cost of Living. During the period of his employment of more than 25 years he was assigned the r...view moreArthur H. walner was a member of the professional staffs of the Navy, Army, EPA, General Services and Cost of Living. During the period of his employment of more than 25 years he was assigned the responsibility of developing and providing instruction, guidance and review of the utilization and interpretation of statistical processes in the execution of the scientific work being performed. He was the Chief Statistician and headed one of the staff groups. To illustrate, one of the Laboratories was staffed at between 1100 and 1200, with about 450 professional personnel, and had an annual budget of between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000. The major fields of research were inertial navigation systems, electronics, materials development and various specialities in physical optics and optical data processing. The diversity of work, its priority and the highly sophisticated technical personnel engaged on the problems made unusually severe demands on Walner's technical ability, his creativity in developing experimental designs in many different disciplines and his ability to win the acceptance and respect of the scientific staff. He was successful in his efforts and the ingenuity of several of his experimental designs won recognition not only in the Laboratory, but in sponsoring organizations in Washington. He is a highly qualified, dedicated and creative mathematical statistician with a very extensive background in experimental design, in the development of effective statistical organizations and in fostering the acceptance and the effective utilization of statistical services by the potential users.view less