Gwilym Jenkins
Gwilym Jenkins | |
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| Born | 12 August 1932 time series analysis |
| Institutions | Lancaster University |
| Doctoral advisors | Florence Nightingale David Norman Lloyd Johnson |
Gwilym Meirion Jenkins (12 August 1932 – 10 July 1982) was a
He earned a first class honours degree in mathematics in 1953 followed by a PhD at
While at Lancaster, he founded and became managing director of ISCOL (International Systems Corporation of Lancaster). He remained in academia until 1974, when he left to start his own consulting company.
He served on the Research Section Committee and Council of the Royal Statistical Society in the 1960s, founded the Journal of Systems Engineering in 1969, and briefly carried out public duties with the Royal Treasury in the mid-1970s. He was elected to the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Institute of Statisticians.
He was a jazz and blues enthusiast and an accomplished pianist.
He died from
Books by G. M. Jenkins
- Spectral analysis and its applications (with D. G. Watts) 1968
- Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control (with G. E. P. Box and Gregory C. Reinsel) 2008
- Practical experience with modelling and forecasting time series 1979
- Case studies in time series analysis (with G. McLeod) 1983
Obituary
- G. E. P. Box (1983) G. M. Jenkins, 1933-1982 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), Vol. 146, No. 2, pp. 205–206.
References
- ^ "Gwilym Meirion Jenkins". Oxford Index. Oxford University Press. 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
External links
- George Box's Interview for the International Journal of Forecasting
- G. M. Jenkins at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Biography of Gwilym M. Jenkins from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences