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 Gilbert Thomas Walker)

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 Karl Pearson)
• 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 Maurice Kendall)

• 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 (Phil. Trans. Ser. A Vol. 226: pp. 267 – 298)  www.jstor.org/stable/91170
• 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.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "George Udny Yule": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive