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    Alexander Craig "Alec" Aitken FRS FRSE FRSL FRSNZ (1 April 1895 – 3 November 1967) was one of New Zealand's most eminent mathematicians. In a 1935 paper...
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  • accelerating the rate of convergence of a sequence. It is named after Alexander Aitken, who introduced this method in 1926. It is most useful for accelerating...
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  • William Alexander Aitken, also known as William Alexander Aitkin (c. 1785–1851), was a fur trader with the Ojibwe in the Upper Mississippi region. He...
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  • above. A further generalization to non-spherical errors was given by Alexander Aitken. Suppose we are given two random variable vectors, X ,  Y ∈ R k {\displaystyle...
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    Charles Alexander Aitken (1 May 1942 – 29 October 2023) was a Scottish footballer most associated with Aston Villa. Aitken is the West Midlands club's...
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  • Alexander Aitken (8 January 1869 – 7 July 1925) was a Scotland international rugby union player. Aitken played club rugby for Edinburgh Institution F...
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  • Ayrshire. The name Aitken may refer to: Abbi Aitken-Drummond (born 1991), Scottish cricketer A.J. Aitken, Scottish lexicographer Alexander Aitken, New Zealand...
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  • William Aitken (footballer) (1894–1973), Scottish soccer player William Alexander Aitken (1785–1851), fur trader with the Ojibwe William Aubrey Aitken (1911–1985)...
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    derived independently by Maurice Fréchet, Georges Darmois, and by Alexander Aitken and Harold Silverstone. It is also known as Fréchet-Cramér–Rao or...
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    place, having used what is now called the Aitken's delta-squared process, rediscovered later by Alexander Aitken. Seki was influenced by Japanese mathematics...
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