John Nelder

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John Ashworth Nelder FRS (born 8 October 1924) is a British statistician.

Born in Dulverton, Somerset, he was educated at Blundell's School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics.

Nelder's appointments include Head, Statistics Section, National Vegetable Research Station, Wellesbourne 1951-1968; Head, first Statistics Department then Biomathematics Division, Rothamsted Experimental Station 1968-1984; Visiting Professor, Imperial College London 1972- present.

Nelder's work is enormously influential, as he is co-inventor of the Generalized linear model. He is also a proponent of the likelihood school of inference, an alternative to both the frequentist and Bayesian schools.


[edit] 80th Birthday tribute

  • Methods and Models in Statistics: In Honour of Professor John Nelder, FRS edited by Niall Adams, Martin Crowder, David J Hand & Dave Stephens Imperial College Press (2004). Imperial College Press Newsletter


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Preceded by:
Walter Bodmer		 President of the Royal Statistical Society
1985—1986		 Succeeded by:
James Durbin
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