William Sealy Gosset

William Sealy Gosset

male, deceased (1937)
Student's t-distribution, English, New College, Oxford, Alumni of New College, Oxford, From Canterbury, Winchester College…Statistician
William Sealy Gosset (June 13 1876 - October 16 1937) was an English chemist and statistician, best known by his pen name "Student" and for his...
A. W. F. Edwards

A. W. F. Edwards

male, 74 years old
Biologist, phylogenetic analysis, Anthony William Fairbank Edwards, likelihood principle, R.A. Fisher, likelihood…Statistician
Anthony William Fairbank Edwards (born 1935) is a British statistician, geneticist, and evolutionary biologist. He is a Life Fellow of Gonville and...
David Spiegelhalter

David Spiegelhalter

male, 56 years old
Professor of the Pubic Understanding of Risk, Erdős number 4, scientist, David John Spiegelhalter, Academic of Brunel University, Alumni of University College London…Statistician
David John Spiegelhalter FRS (16 August 1953 -) is a statistician. He is now Professor of the Pubic Understanding of Risk at the University of...
Leo Breiman

Leo Breiman

male, deceased (2005) (Berkeley, United States)
national academy of science, random forest, bootstrap aggregating, classification and regression trees, United States National Academy of Science, mathematician…Statistician
Leo Breiman was a distinguished statistician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, and was...
Maurice Kendall

Maurice Kendall

male, deceased (1983)
From kettering, randomness, British, Academic of the London School of Economics, Statistician, English
Sir Maurice George Kendall (September 6, 1907-March 29, 1983) was a British statistician.
Arthur Young

Arthur Young

male, deceased (1820)
Farmer's Tour through the East of England, writer, Lavenham, Statistician, English, From suffolk
Arthur Young (September 11, 1741 - April 12, 1820) was an English writer on agriculture, economics and social statistics. Arthur was the second son...
Leslie Kish

Leslie Kish

male, deceased (2000)
survey sampling, survey, Statistician, hungarian, University of Michigan faculty, London School of Economics
Leslie Kish (July 27, 1910 - October 7, 2000) was an American statistician of Hungarian descent. He fought in the International Brigade in the...
Herman Chernoff

Herman Chernoff

male, 86 years old
Jewish person, Harvard University, Jewish, physicist, mathematician, Statistician
Herman Chernoff (born July 1, 1923) is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist latterly working at Harvard University.
Gottfried Achenwall

Gottfried Achenwall

male, deceased (1772)
Holland, Statistician, German, braunschweig, marburg, halle
Gottfried Achenwall was a German statistician. He is counted among the inventors of statistics. He was born in Elbing (Elbląg). Beginning in 1738 h...
Judea Pearl

Judea Pearl

male, 73 years old
computer scientist, Artificial intelligence researcher, UCLA, Israeli, belief propagation, Fellow of the IEEE…Statistician
Judea Pearl is a computer scientist and statistician, best known for his prominent work on the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence,...