Warren M. Persons (1878–1937) was an American economist. He was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, and a professor of economics at Colorado College and Harvard University. He was the President of the American Statistical Association in 1923.

Warren M. Persons was born in 1878.^[1] He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1899, and he earned a PhD in economics in 1916.^[2]

Persons taught economics at the University of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1906.^[2] He was an assistant professor of economics at Dartmouth College from 1906 to 1910.^[2] He was a professor of economics at Colorado College from 1913 to 1918, and at Harvard University from 1918 to 1928.^[2] He was also the editor of The Review of Economics and Statistics.^[2]

Persons became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1914, and its president in 1923.^[2]

Persons married Irmagarde Keller in 1906.^[2] He fell ill with tuberculosis in 1910 and survived in 1913.^[2]

Persons died on October 11, 1937.^[1][2]

• Persons, Warren M. (1919). Indices of General Business Conditions. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Committee on Economic research. OCLC 917724375.
• Persons, Warren M. (1928). The Construction of Index Numbers. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.

• Friedman, Walter A. (2014). "Chapter 4: C.J. Bullock and Warren Persons: The Harvard ABC Chart. "The Statistician... attempts to find an analogy existing in an orderly universe"". Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 128–165. ISBN 9780691159119. OCLC 858778194.
• "Warren M. Persons". JSTOR.