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2012 Syracuse Orange football team

Their 2012 schedule is the 42nd-toughest in the nation, according to rankings compiled by statistician Jeff Sagarin.

Abid Ali

Abid Ali Kazi, cricket statistician and historian based in Pakistan

Andrew Samson

Andrew Samson is the current (2013) statistician for the BBC's live broadcasts of "Test Match Special" when the England cricket team is playing abroad.

Anthony James Barr

Barr had earlier created an analysis-of-variance modeling language inspired by the notation of statistician Maurice Kendall.

Arthur Dempster

Arthur P. Dempster, mathematician and statistician at Harvard University

August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome

August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome (Sengwarden, 8 June 1753 – 11 June 1833, Rödelheim) was a German economist and statistician, known particularly for his Producten-Karte von Europa (1782), one of the first uses of cartograms.

Bapoo Mama

Bapoo Burjorji 'B.B.' Mama (born April 8, 1924 in Bombay - died March 18, 1995 in Bombay) was a cricket statistician.

Benini

Rodolfo Benini (1862–1956), an Italian statistician as well as demographer

Bill Goichberg

After graduating from New York University in 1963, Goichberg worked as USCF Rating Statistician from 1964 to 1967.

Block design

A fundamental theorem, Fisher's inequality, named after the statistician Ronald Fisher, is that b ≥ v in any 2-design.

Chief Statistician of Canada

The Chief Statistician supervises the administration of the Statistics Act and controls the operation and staff of Statistics Canada.

Combinatorial design

Some of the basic theory of combinatorial designs originated in the statistician Ronald Fisher's work on the design of biological experiments.

Conny Palm

Professor Håkan Sterky, who was Palm's thesis advisor, has characterised Palm as a bohemian and a brilliant statistician.

Cool It

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, a 2007 book by the Danish statistician and political scientist Bjørn Lomborg

Costantino Bresciani Turroni

Costantino Bresciani Turroni (26 February 1882, Verona, Italy – 1963, Milan, Italy) was an Italian economist and statistician.

De Finetti

de Finetti usually refers to the Italian probabilist and statistician Bruno de Finetti, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability.

Dick Goddard

After returning to Cleveland, Goddard also took a job with the NFL's Cleveland Browns as the team's official statistician for home games.

Elfving

Gustav Elfving (1908–1984), Finnish mathematician and statistician

F. S. Ashley-Cooper

Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper (born c. 22 March 1877 in Bermondsey, London; died 31 January 1932 in Milford, near Godalming, Surrey) was a cricket historian and statistician.

Fisher information

The role of the Fisher information in the asymptotic theory of maximum-likelihood estimation was emphasized by the statistician R.A. Fisher (following some initial results by F. Y. Edgeworth).

Frederick Martin

Frederick Martin (editor) (1830–1883), German-born, British statistician, founder of The Statesman's Yearbook and its editor for twenty years 1864–1883

Glyn Ceiriog

Additionally, Lancelot Hogben an experimental zoologist and medical statistician, lived there from the late 1950s until his death.

Grenander

Ulf Grenander (born 23 July 1923 in Västervik, Sweden) statistician and a professor of applied mathematics

Henry Louis Rietz

Henry Louis Rietz (24 August 1875, Gilmore, Ohio – 7 December 1943, Iowa City, Iowa) was an American mathematician, actuarial scientist, and statistician, who was a leader in the development of statistical theory.

Human genetic clustering

In 2003, British statistician and evolutionary biologist A. W. F. Edwards faulted Lewontin’s statement for basing his conclusions on simple comparison of genes and rather on a more complex structure of gene frequencies.

Information overload

Authors who have taken this tack include graphic artist and architect Richard Saul Wurman (the man who coined the phrase information architect) and statistician and cognitive scientist Edward Tufte.

Jamie P. Chandler

Between 2007 and 2009 he was a visiting fellow at the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University studying under Statistician Andrew Gelman.

Jeff Sonas

Jeff Sonas is a statistical chess analyst who invented the Chessmetrics system for rating chess players, which is intended as an improvement on the Elo rating system.

Kenley, Shropshire

The historian Archibald Alison and statistician William Farr were born in Kenley.

Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

She was educated at Roedean (where she was head girl), Heidelberg University, Queen Mary, University of London and the Polytechnic of Central London, and worked as a statistician and market research manager, including a spell with Shell-Mex and BP, before entering Parliament as MP for Wallasey, Merseyside, succeeding the former Cabinet minister Ernest Marples.

Michael A. Newton

Michael A. Newton (born July 19, 1964, Baddeck, Nova Scotia) is an award-winning Canadian statistician.

Noether

Gottfried E. Noether (1915–1991), son of Fritz Noether, statistician at the University of Connecticut

Occam's razor

William H. Jefferys (no relation to Harold Jeffreys) and James O. Berger (1991) generalize and quantify the original formulation's "assumptions" concept as the degree to which a proposition is unnecessarily accommodating to possible observable data.

Oscar Phelps Austin

Oscar Phelps Austin (1848 – 1933) was an American statistician, born in Newark, Illinois, and educated in public schools.

Partial least squares regression

Partial least squares was introduced by the Swedish statistician Herman Wold, who then developed it with his son, Svante Wold.

Peter G. Moore

Peter Gerald Mooore TD FIA (5 April 1928 - 14 June 2010) was a British soldier, actuary, academic and statistician.

Pocock boundary

The concept was introduced by the medical statistician Stuart Pocock in 1977.

Richard Douthwaite

He built concrete boats at a cooperative in Port Antonio, Jamaica in the early 1970s and was then government statistician in the British Caribbean colony of Montserrat for two years before moving to Ireland (near Westport) to write and campaign about climate and energy issues and local economic development.

Richard Gill

Richard D. Gill (born 1951), Anglo-Dutch mathematician / mathematical statistician

Robert Dudley Baxter

Robert Dudley Baxter (3 February 1827, Doncaster – 1875, Frognal) was an English economist and statistician.

Saadi Lahlou

Saadi Lahlou graduated as statistician and economist at the ENSAE in Paris.

Shurlock Row

In Shurlock Row is set the story "Statistician's Day" by James Blish.

Søren Johansen

Søren Johansen (born 6 November 1939) is a Danish Statistician and Econometrician who is, perhaps, most famous for his contributions to the theory of Cointegration.

St Tudy

Notable people from St Tudy include: William Bligh, naval officer; Eddie George, former governor of the Bank of England; Oscar Kempthorne, statistician and geneticist at Iowa State University; and Richard Lower, early experimenter in blood transfusion.

Triveni Sangam

On the bank of the Ganges at Daraganj, just before the confluence of ganga and Yamuna, the well known statistician Ravindra Khattree spent his early years when he attended Ewing Christian College, situated on the bank of Yamuna few miles before the confluence and the famous writer "Surya Kant Tripathi 'Nirala'" also spent his whole life at the same place (Daraganj).

Västervik

Ulf Grenander, statistician, probabilist, and computer scientist.

William Fleetwood Sheppard

Another contemporary was the civil servant and statistician R H Hooker.

William Sheppard

William Fleetwood Sheppard, Australian-British mathematician and statistician


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