John Wishart (statistician)
| John Wishart | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
28 November 1898 Montrose, Scotland |
| Died |
14 July 1956 (aged 57) Acapulco, Mexico |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Institutions |
Rothamsted Experimental Station University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater |
Edinburgh University Cambridge University University College London |
| Doctoral advisor | Karl Pearson |
| Doctoral students | William Gemmell Cochran |
Dr John Wishart FRSE (28 November 1898 – 14 July 1956) was a Scottish mathematician and agricultural statistician.
He worked successively at University College London with Karl Pearson, at Rothamsted Experimental Station with Ronald Fisher, and then as a leader in statistics in the University of Cambridge where he became the first Director of the Statistical Laboratory in 1953. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1931,[1] and edited Biometrika from 1937. In 1950 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2] The Wishart distribution is named after him.
Wishart died at age 57 in a bathing accident in Acapulco while representing the Food and Agriculture Organization on a mission to set up a research centre.
Notes
- ↑ Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index (PDF). II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
- ↑ View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-07-23.
References
- Whittle, P. "The Cambridge Statistical Laboratory up to 1993 (revised 2002)".
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "John Wishart", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- Times Obituary
- Pearson, E. S. (1957). "John Wishart 1898–1956". Biometrika. 44: 1. doi:10.1093/biomet/44.1-2.1.
- First World War service