William Gemmell Cochran
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William G. Cochran | |
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Born | Rutherglen |
July 15, 1909
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Orleans, Massachusetts |
Nationality | American |
Fields | Statistics |
Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
Academic advisors | John Wishart |
Doctoral students | Samprit Chatterjee Ralph D'Agostino Donald Rubin |
Known for | Cochran's C test Cochran's Q test Cochran's theorem Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel statistics |
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 ISBN 0-471-54567-8
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- Statistical Methods Applied to Experiments in Agriculture and Biology by George W. Snedecor (Cochran contributed from the fifth (1956) edition) ISBN 0-8138-1561-4
- Planning and Analysis of Observational Studies (edited by Lincoln E. Moses and Frederick Mosteller) 1983.
External links
- Brief biography
- ASA biography
- 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 Project
- National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
- "Designing Clinical Trials" (1961; Evaluation of Drug Therapy)
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- Presidents of the American Statistical Association
- Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Presidents of the International Statistical Institute
- Winners of the Guy Medal in Bronze
- Winners of the Wilks Memorial Award
- Rothamsted statisticians
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- Survey methodologists
- American statisticians
- British statisticians
- Harvard University faculty
- 20th-century mathematicians
- 1909 births
- 1980 deaths
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Statistician stubs