Louis Israel Dublin (November 1, 1882 – March 7, 1969) was a Jewish American statistician.
[1] As a scholar, Dublin was an important figure in the establishment of demography as a social-scientific discipline in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s.
[1] Dublin was interested in eugenics but as a Jew of recent immigrant extraction criticized eugenicists for equating biological superiority with Nordic origins.
[dubious – discuss] While serving as a vice president at Met Life Insurance and as a statistician Dublin developed a height for weight table based on longevity of life insurance holders in the early 1940s.
Keys intended the BMI to be used only for the study of groups and not to be applied to individuals.