John Nelder
John Ashworth Nelder (born October 8, 1924 in Brushford , Somerset , † August 7, 2010 in Luton , Bedfordshire ) was a British mathematician and statistician.
Life
Nelder studied at Cambridge University (Sidney Sussex College). 1951 to 1968 he was head of statistics in the National Vegetable Research Station in Wellesbourne and 1968 to 1984 in the Rothamstead Experimental Station. From 1972 he was also visiting professor at Imperial College London .
Together with Robert Wedderburn, Nelder introduced the model class of generalized linear models in 1972 . He also developed statistical software packages for this ( GLIM for Generalized Linear Interactive Working Program, which was announced in 1975, and GenStat ).
In 1965 he and Roger Mead developed the downhill simplex method (Nelder Mead method).
In 1976 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 2005 he received the Guy Medal of the Royal Statistical Society .
Fonts
- with Roger Mead: A simplex method for function minimization. Computer Journal, Volume 7, 1965, pp. 308-313.
- with Robert Wedderburn: Generalized Linear Models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), Volume 135, 1972, pp. 370-384.
- with Peter McCullagh : Generalized Linear Models. Chapman and Hall / CRC Press, 2nd edition (1st edition), Boca Raton 1989 (1983), ISBN 0-412-31760-5 .
- with Youngjo Lee , Yudi Pawitan : Generalized Linear Models with Random Effects. Unified Analysis via H-likelihood. Chapman and Hall / CRC Press, Boca Raton 2006, ISBN 978-1-58488-631-0 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nelder, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nelder, John Ashworth (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician and statistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brushford , Somerset |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 2010 |
| Place of death | Luton , Bedfordshire |