Mathematician:Francis John Anscombe

Mathematician

English statistician best known for emphasising the importance of randomisation.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 13 May 1918 in Hove, East Sussex
• Died: 17 October 2001

Publications

• 1948: The Validity of Comparative Experiments (J. R. Stat. Soc. Ser. A Vol. 111: pp. 181 – 211)  www.jstor.org/stable/2984159
• 1948: The Transformation of Poisson, Binomial and Negative-Binomial Data (Biometrika Vol. 35: pp. 246 – 254)  www.jstor.org/stable/2332343
• 1963: The Examination and Analysis of Residuals (Technometrics Vol. 5: pp. 141 – 160) (with John W. Tukey)  www.jstor.org/stable/1266059
• 1963: A Definition of Subjective Probability (Ann. Math. Stat. Vol. 34: pp. 199 – 205) (with R.J. Aumann)
• 1973: Graphs in Statistical Analysis (The American Statistician pp. 17 – 21)  www.jstor.org/stable/2682899
• 1981: Computing in Statistical Science through APL

Also known as

Generally known as Frank.