Frank Anscombe
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Francis John Anscombe (13 May 1918 – 17 October 2001) was an English statistician.
Education and career
Born in
Rothamsted Experimental Station
for two years before returning to Cambridge as a lecturer.
In
R. A. Bailey
in particular.
Anscombe moved to
Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[4] He became the founding chairman of the statistics department at Yale University in 1963.[5][6]
Research
According to
His earlier suggestion for a variance-stabilizing transformation for Poisson data is often known as the Anscombe transform.[8]He later became interested in
statistical computing, and stressed that "a computer should make both calculations and graphs", and illustrated the importance of graphing data with four data sets now known as Anscombe's quartet.[9] He later published a textbook on statistical computing in APL.[10]
In
subjective probability.[11]
Personal life
Anscombe was
brother-in-law to another well-known statistician, John Tukey of Princeton University; their wives were sisters.[6]
References
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- ^
MR 0030181.
- MR 1781064.
- ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 16 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-07-23.
- ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (25 October 2001). "Francis John Anscombe, 83, Mathematician and Professor". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^ .
- JSTOR 1266059.
- ^ Anscombe, F. J. (1948). "The Transformation of Poisson, Binomial and Negative-Binomial Data". Biometrika. 35 (3–4): 246–254. .
- JSTOR 2682899.
- ISBN 3-540-90549-9.
- ^ "Anscombe, Aumann: A Definition of Subjective Probability".
- "Noted statistician Francis J. Anscombe dies". Yale Bulletin & Calendar. Vol. 30, no. 9. 2 November 2001. Archived from the original on 11 September 2015.
External links
- Frank Anscombe at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Francis John Anscombe Papers. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
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