Vittorio Castellano was born in Naples on June the 29th and studied in Rome first Mathematics and Physics the Statistics.

His contributions in statistical method and probability are very important, as well as to researches in the demographic and sociological fields.

The main arguments of interest have been about means and variability, concentration indices, moments, sampling theory and statistical inference.

For a complete biography, see G. Leti, Ricordo di Vittorio Castellano, Statistica, LVIII, 2, 1998.

Honorary Member of the City University of New York's Academy of the Humanities and Sciences.