Mathematician:Joseph Oscar Irwin

Mathematician

British statistician who advanced the use of statistical methods in biological assay and other fields of laboratory medicine.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 17 December 1898 in London, England
• Died: 27 July 1982

Theorems and Definitions

• Fisher-Irwin Test (with Ronald Aylmer Fisher), also known as:

Fisher's Exact Test (for Ronald Aylmer Fisher)

the Fisher-Yates Test (for Ronald Aylmer Fisher and Frank Yates)

• Irwin-Hall Distribution (with Philip Hall)

Definitions of concepts named for Joseph Oscar Irwin can be found here.

Publications

• 1927: On the Frequency Distribution of the Means of Samples from a Population Having any Law of Frequency with Finite Moments, with Special Reference to Pearson's Type II (Biometrika Vol. 19: pp. 225 – 239)  www.jstor.org/stable/2331960
• 1931: Recent Advances in Mathematical Statistics (J.R. Stat. Soc. Vol. 94: pp. 568 – 578)  www.jstor.org/stable/2341934
• 1935: Tests of Significance for Differences between Percentages Based on Small Numbers (METRON Vol. 12: pp. 83 – 94)
• 1963: The Place of Mathematics in Medical and Biological Statistics (J.R. Stat. Soc. Ser. A Vol. 126: pp. 1 – 45)  www.jstor.org/stable/2982445
• 1963: Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, 1890–1962 (J.R. Stat. Soc. Ser. A Vol. 126: pp. 159 – 162)  www.jstor.org/stable/2982477
• 1975: The Generalized Waring Distribution. Part I (J.R. Stat. Soc. Ser. A Vol. 138: pp. 18 – 31)  www.jstor.org/stable/2345247