Gaetano Pietra

Pietra Gaetano (10 August 1879, in Castiglione delle Stiviere, Italy 1961, in Villanova dello Iudrio, Udine, Italy) was an Italian statistician

Life and career

Gaetano Pietra was Professor at the University of Ferrara. In 1927, he founded and directed the School of Statistics of the University of Padua, and he was formerly Director of the Institute of Statistics in the Superior School of Commerce in Venice as well as Member of the Superior Council for Statistics. He defined statistical training as “the formation of a mental habitus suitable to quantitave analysis and the analysis of mass problems” and left no doubt as to his view of the hierarchy among the kinds of knowledge that were required for the administration of the state, since “in a structured economic system, economic theory as well as economic policy resolve themselves into economic statistics”. Gaetano Pietra also played an important role in the organization of supplies during the great war before dedicating himself to scientific statistics, held an official position (as president of the political sciences and law faculties at Padua University) until the regime’s fall in July 1943. In April 1945, he was appointed vice-commissar, and from January 1946, president of Udine’s Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture. He was also elected to the Senato for the Demo Christian party in 1948-1953. He founded the Italian Statistical Society and he was its president.

Research Interests

Variability and concentration measures, concordance between cyclical series.

Education

Degree in Law, University of Padua.

Academic Positions

Full professor of Statistics at the University of Padua and Ferrara (up to 1949), member of the Istituto interno di Statistica, member of the Istituto veneto di scienze lettere ed arti. Founder and president of the Italian statistical society.

Honours,Awards

President of Udine’s Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture. Senato for the Demo Christian party in 1948-1953. Emeritus Professror at the University of Padua.

Known for

He provided important and original contributions to the relationships between variability and concentration, and concordance between ciclical series.

Publications

Link

https://sites.google.com/site/dizionariosis/dizionario-statistico/statistici-n-o-p/pietra-gaetano http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/gaetano-pietra/

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