Edward Hugh Simpson

Edward Hugh Simpson (born December 10, 1922 - February 5, 2019 ) was a British statistician and known for his description of the Simpson Paradox named after him and the Simpson Index .

Simpson grew up in Northern Ireland and came to statistics as an employee in the cryptanalysis of German rotor machines in Bletchley Park from 1942 to 1945 and wrote the essay on the Simpson Paradox that made his name known as a student of Maurice Bartlett at Cambridge University .

From 1947 he was Administrative Secretary initially in the British Ministry of Education, later, among other things with the Treasury, the Commonwealth Education Liaison Unit and as private secretary to Lord Hailsham (as this Lord Keeper was). 1956/57 he was a Harkness Fellow in the USA. In 1982 he retired as "Deputy Secretary" in the Ministry of Education.

He lived in Oxfordshire .

Individual evidence

↑ Edward Simpson, brilliant mathematician who broke enemy naval ciphers at Bletchley and later devised Simpson's Paradox - obituary The Telegraph, accessed March 12, 2019
^ EH Simpson: The Interpretation of Interaction in Contingency Tables . In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Ser. B . tape 13 , 1951, pp. 238-241 .

personal data
SURNAME	Simpson, Edward Hugh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British statistician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 10, 1922
DATE OF DEATH	5th February 2019

[1] Edward Simpson, brilliant mathematician who broke enemy naval ciphers at Bletchley and later devised Simpson's Paradox - obituary The Telegraph, accessed March 12, 2019

[2] EH Simpson: The Interpretation of Interaction in Contingency Tables . In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Ser. B . tape 13 , 1951, pp. 238-241 .