William Gemmell Cochran

William G. Cochran
Rothamsted Experimental Station Iowa State University North Carolina State University Johns Hopkins University Harvard University
Academic advisors	John Wishart
Doctoral students	Donald Rubin Calvin Zippin Helen Abbey Ralph B. D'Agostino

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

, 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
  ISBN 0-471-54567-8
• Cochran, William G. (1977). Sampling Techniques (Third ed.). Wiley.
  ISBN 0-471-16240-X
  .
• Statistical Methods Applied to Experiments in Agriculture and Biology by
  ISBN 0-8138-1561-4
• Planning and Analysis of Observational Studies (edited by
  Lincoln E. Moses and Frederick Mosteller
  ) 1983.

References

External links

• Brief biography Archived 7 July 2005 at the Wayback Machine
• ASA biography Archived 13 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine
• Morris Hansen and Frederick Mosteller (1987) William Gemmell Cochran NAS Biographical Memoirs V.56
• JSTOR 2982120
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• William Gemmell Cochran at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Morris Hansen and Frederick Mosteller, "William Gemmell Cochran", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (1987)
• "Designing Clinical Trials" (1961; Evaluation of Drug Therapy)