John Wishart (statistician)
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John Wishart | |
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Born | Perth, Scotland |
28 November 1898
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Acapulco, Mexico |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Nationality | Scottish |
Institutions | Rothamsted Experimental Station University of Cambridge |
Alma mater | Edinburgh University Cambridge University University College London |
Doctoral advisor | Karl Pearson |
Doctoral students | M. S. Bartlett |
John Wishart FRSE (28 November 1898 – 14 July 1956) was a Scottish mathematician and agricultural statistician.
He worked successively at University College London with Karl Pearson, at Rothamsted Experimental Station with Ronald Fisher, and then as a leader in statistics in the University of Cambridge where he became the first Director of the Statistical Laboratory in 1953. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1931,[1] and edited Biometrika from 1937. The Wishart distribution is named after him.
Wishart died at age 57 in a bathing accident in Acapulco while representing the Food and Agriculture Organization on a mission to set up a research centre.
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