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William John Youden
Born(1900-04-12)12 April 1900
Townsville, Australia
Died31 March 1971(1971-03-31) (aged 70)
Washington, D.C.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Rochester
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsNational Bureau of Standards
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research

William John Youden (April 12, 1900 – March 31, 1971) was a statistician who formulated new statistical techniques in statistical analysis and in designs for experimenters. He developed the "Youden square", an incomplete block design developed from a 1937 paper, "Use of Incomplete Block Replications in Estimating Tobacco Mosaic Virus". He also helped to introduce the concept of restricted randomization, which he called constrained randomization.[1][2][3][4]

The American Statistical Association bestows the W. J. Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing to authors "of publications that make outstanding contributions to the design and/or analysis of interlaboratory tests or describe ingenious approaches to the planning and evaluation of data from such tests." The award is presented each year at the Joint Statistical Meetings.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Youden, William John.", Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Retrieved April 09, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com
  2. ^ BIOGRAPHY 5.1 William J. Youden (1900–1971), swlearning.com (adapted from Journal of Quality Technology, January 1972, pp. 3–6, and Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. XIV (New York: Charles Scribner's, 1976), pp. 552–557.)
  3. ^ Churchill Eisenhart and Joan R. Rosenblatt. W. J. Youden, 1900–1971, The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Aug., 1972), pp. 1035–1040
  4. ^ Cornell, John A. W.J. Youden – The Man and his Methodology, ASQC Statistics Division Newsletter, Vol. 13, No. 2
  5. ^ http://www.amstat.org/awards/wjyoudenaward.cfm
  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "William John Youden", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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