Cochran

William Gemmell Cochran

Born: 15 July 1909 in Rutherglen, Scotland
Died: 29 March 1980 in Orleans, Massachusetts, USA

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After a Ph.D. from Cambridge Cochran went to the Rothamsted Experimental Station where he worked for 5 years on experimental designs and sample survey techniques. During this time he worked closely with Yates.

Cochran accepted a statistics post at Iowa in 1939, worked with Wilks at Princeton, then joined the newly created North Carolina Institute of Statistics. Later he was at Johns Hopkins and then Harvard and did much to promote statistics within the USA.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. R L Anderson, William Gemmell Cochran 1909-1980, A personal tribute, Biometrics 36 (1980), 574-578.
  3. G S Watson, William Gemmell Cochran 1909-1980, Annals of Statistics 10 (1982), 1-10.
  4. P S R S Rao, Professor William Gemmell Cochran : pioneer in statistics, outstanding scientist and noble human being, in Current topics in survey sampling (Ottawa, 1980), 3-7. 
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