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unusual facts about Rothamsted Experimental Station



Analysis of variance

This design-based analysis was discussed and developed by Francis J. Anscombe at Rothamsted Experimental Station and by Oscar Kempthorne at Iowa State University.

Factorial experiment

Factorial designs were used in the 19th century by John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert of the Rothamsted Experimental Station.

John Nelder

While leading research at Rothamsted Experimental Station, Nelder developed and supervised the updating of the statistical software packages GLIM and GenStat: Both packages are flexible high-level programming languages that allow statisticians to formulate linear models concisely.


see also

Rothamsted

Rothamsted Research, an English agricultural research institution, formerly known as Rothamsted Experimental Station.