Mathematician:Maurice George Kendall
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Mathematician
English mathematician who made significant contributions to statistics.
Nationality
British
History
- Born: 6 Sept 1907, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England
- Died: 29 March 1983, Redhill, Surrey, England
Theorems and Definitions
- Kendall Tau Rank Correlation
- Kendall's Rank Correlation Coefficient ($1938$)
- Kendall's Coefficient of Concordance ($1939$)
Definitions of concepts named for Maurice George Kendall can be found here.
Publications
- 1938: Randomness and Random Sampling Numbers (with Bernard Babington-Smith)
- 1939: Tables of Random Sampling Numbers (with Bernard Babington-Smith)
- 1943: The Advanced Theory of Statistics, Volume 1
- 1946: The Advanced Theory of Statistics, Volume 2
- 1948: Rank Correlation
- 1950: Introduction to the Theory of Statistics (14th Edition) (with G. Udny Yule)
- 1952: Statistical Sources in the United Kingdom: Volume 1 (as editor)
- 1953: The Analysis of Economic Time-Series - Part I: Prices (with Austin Bradford Hill)
- 1957: Statistical Sources in the United Kingdom: Volume 2 (as editor)
- 1957: Dictionary of Statistical Terms (as editor)
- 1961: A course in the geometry of n dimensions
- 1962: Bibliography of Statistical Literature: Volume 1 (as editor)
- 1963: Geometrical probability (with P.A.P. Moran)
- 1965: Bibliography of Statistical Literature: Volume 2 (as editor)
- 1967: An Introduction to Probability Theory (with P.A.P. Moran)
- 1968: Bibliography of Statistical Literature: Volume 3 (as editor)
- 1973: Time series
Also:
- A course in multivariate analysis
- Cluster analysis
- A series of articles: Studies in the history of probability and statistics
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Maurice George Kendall": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Kendall, Sir Maurice George (1907-83)