L. H. C. Tippett
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| Born | 8 May 1902 Fisher–Tippett distribution |
Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett (8 May 1902 – 9 November 1985), known professionally as L. H. C. Tippett, was an English statistician.
Tippett was born in London but spent most of his early life in
Fisher–Tippett distribution
is named after him.
At the Shirley Institute he applied statistics to the problem of
American Society for Quality Control
.
Tippett published "Random Sampling Numbers" in 1927 and thus invented the random number table.
In 1965 he retired to
St. Matthew Passion
.
Awards
- Warner Medal of the Textile Institute
- Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 1950[1]
- Guy Medal in Silver of the Royal Statistical Society, 1954
- Honorary MSc UMIST
- President of the Manchester Statistical Society
- President of the Royal Statistical Society, 1965
- Shewart Medal of the American Society for Quality Control
Books
- Random Sampling Numbers, CUP, London, 1927
- Statistics, The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge, Oxford University Press, London, 1943
- Methods of Statistics, Williams & Norgate Ltd., London, 1931, 1948, 1952
- Statistical Methods for Textile Technologists, by T. Murphy, K. P. Norris, L. H. C. Tippett, Textile Institute, Manchester, 1960, 1963, 1973, 1979
- A Portrait of the Lancashire Textile Industry, OUP, London 1969
References
- ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 16 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-07-23.
- H. E. Daniels (1982), A Tribute to L.H.C. Tippett, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), Vol. 145, No. 2, pp. 261–262.
- J. E. Ford (1986), L.H.C. Tippett, 1902-1985, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), Vol. 149, No. 1, p. 44. (obituary)
- Stanton, R.G. (1987). "The Work of L. H. C. Tippett" (PDF). Ars Textrina. 7: 179–185.