John Wishart (statistician)
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For other persons bearing this name, see John Wishart (disambiguation).
John Wishart (28 November 1898 – 14 July 1956) was a Scottish agricultural statistician.
He was a reader in statistics at the University of Cambridge, awarded fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1931 and edited Biometrika from 1937.
The Wishart distribution and the John Wishart Prize for Statistics are named after him.
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "John Wishart (statistician)". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Times Obituary