Mathematician:George Udny Yule

Mathematician
Scottish statistician, particularly known for the Yule distribution.

Nationality
Scottish

History

 * Born: 18 February 1871 in Morham, nr. Haddington, Scotland
 * Died: 26 June 1951 in Cambridge, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Yule Distribution
 * Yule-Walker Equations (with )

Publications

 * 1895: On the Correlation of Total Pauperism with Proportion of Out-relief
 * 1896: On the Significance of Bravais' Formulae for Regression, &c., in the Case of Skew Correlation
 * 1900: On the Association of Attributes in Statistics: With Illustrations from the Material of the Childhood Society, &c
 * 1901: On the Theory of Consistence of Logical Class-Frequencies, and Its Geometrical Representation (with )
 * 1902: Mendel's Laws and their probable relations to inter-racial heredity
 * 1907: On the Theory of Correlation for any Number of Variables, Treated by a New System of Notation


 * 1911: Introduction to the Theory of Statistics
 * 1937: Introduction to the Theory of Statistics (11th Edition)
 * 1950: Introduction to the Theory of Statistics (14th Edition) (with )


 * 1921: On the time-correlation problem
 * 1925: A Mathematical Theory of Evolution, based on the Conclusions of Dr. J. C. Willis, F.R.S.
 * 1927: On a Method of Investigating Periodicities in Disturbed Series, with Special Reference to Wolfer's Sunspot Numbers
 * 1944: The statistical study of literary vocabulary
 * 1946: Cumulative sampling: a speculation as to what happens in copying manuscripts

Also known as
Usually known as Udny Yule.