William J. Youden

William John Youden
Born (1900-04-12)12 April 1900
Townsville, Australia
Died 31 March 1971(1971-03-31) (aged 70)
Washington, D.C.
Nationality American
Fields Statistics
Institutions National Bureau of Standards
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
Alma mater University of Rochester

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

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