William Gemmell Cochran
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William Gemmell Cochran (15 July 1909 – 29 March 1980) was a prominent statistician. He was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States.
Cochran studied mathematics at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge. He worked at Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1934 to 1939, when he moved to the United States. There he helped establish several departments of statistics. His longest spell in any one university was at Harvard, which he joined in 1957 and from which he retired in 1976.
Writings
Cochran wrote many articles and books. His books became standard texts:
- Experimental Designs (with Gertrude Mary Cox) 1950 Template:ISBN
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- Statistical Methods Applied to Experiments in Agriculture and Biology by George W. Snedecor (Cochran contributed from the fifth (1956) edition) Template:ISBN
- Planning and Analysis of Observational Studies (edited by Lincoln E. Moses and Frederick Mosteller) 1983.
References
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External links
- Brief biography Template:Webarchive
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- Morris Hansen and Frederick Mosteller (1987) William Gemmell Cochran NAS Biographical Memoirs V.56
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- William Gemmell Cochran at the Mathematics Genealogy ProjectTemplate:EditAtWikidata
- Morris Hansen and Frederick Mosteller, "William Gemmell Cochran", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (1987)
- "Designing Clinical Trials" (1961; Evaluation of Drug Therapy)
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- 1909 births
- 1980 deaths
- American statisticians
- British statisticians
- Harvard University faculty
- 20th-century Scottish mathematicians
- Presidents of the American Statistical Association
- Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Presidents of the International Statistical Institute
- Rothamsted statisticians
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- Survey methodologists
- People from Rutherglen
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Alumni of the University of Glasgow
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Mathematical statisticians