Salem Hanna Khamis

Salem Hanna Khamis
Born(1919-11-22)November 22, 1919
Renineh village, Kaza of Nazareth, Ottoman Syria
DiedJune 16, 2005(2005-06-16) (aged 85)
Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom
NationalityPalestinian, British
Academic background
Alma materArab College in Jerusalem, American University of Beirut, University College London
Academic work
DisciplineInternational Statistician
InstitutionsAmerican University of Beirut
Notable ideasGeary–Khamis dollar, Sampling theory, tabulation of the Incomplete gamma function, wrote “Tables of the Incomplete Gamma Function Ratio”.

Salem Hanna Khamis (Arabic: سالم حنا خميس) (November 22, 1919 – June 16, 2005) was a Palestinian economic statistician for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization who helped formalise the Geary-Khamis method of computing purchasing power parity of currencies.

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