Robert Wedderburn (statistician)
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Robert William Maclagan Wedderburn (1947–1975) was a Scottish statistician who worked at the Rothamsted Experimental Station. He was co-developer, with John Nelder, of the generalized linear model methodology,[1] and then expanded this subject to develop the idea of quasi-likelihood.[2]
He died aged 28 of anaphylactic shock from an insect bite while on a canal holiday.[3]
"His colleagues remember him as someone of engaging diffidence, who would nonetheless hold his own in argument when he was sure he was right (as he usually was)." — John Nelder[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Nelder, John A; Wedderburn, Robert W (1972). "Generalized linear models". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 135: 370–384. doi:.
- ^ Wedderburn, RWM (1974). "Quasi-likelihood functions, generalized linear models, and the Gauss—Newton method". Biometrika 61 (3): 439–447. doi:.
- ^ Senn, Stephen (2003). "A conversation with John Nelder". Statistical Science 18 (1): 118–131. doi:.
- ^ Nelder, John (1975). Obituary: Robert William Maclagan Wedderburn, 1947-1975. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General) Vol. 138, No. 4 , p. 587
