Mathematician:John Ashworth Nelder

Mathematician

English statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 8 October 1924 in Brushford, Somerset, England
• Died: 7 August 2010 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Nelder-Mead Simplex Heuristic (with Roger Mead)
• Nelder-Mead Algorithm (also known as the Nelder-Mead Method) (with Roger Mead)

Definitions of concepts named for John Ashworth Nelder can be found here.

Publications

• 1962: A statistical examination of the Hastings Rarities
• 1972: Generalized Linear Models (J.R. Stat. Soc. Ser. A Vol. 135, no. 3: pp. 370 – 384) (with Robert Wedderburn)  www.jstor.org/stable/2344614