Norman Draper

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Norman Richard Draper (born March 20, 1931 in Southampton ) is a British mathematical statistician.

Draper graduated from Cambridge University with a bachelor's degree in 1954 and a master's degree in 1958 and received his doctorate in statistics ( Investigation of Response Surface Designs ) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill in 1958 with Raj Chandra Bose . In 1957 he was a research assistant in the statistics group at Princeton University . From 1958 to 1960 he was a statistician at Imperial Chemical Industries in England in the plastics department. In 1961 he became an assistant (at George Box ) and in 1966 professor of statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , where he was chairman of the statistics department from 1967 to 1973.

He deals with design of experiments, linear models and nonlinear estimators. He published a book with George Box (who developed the process in the 1950s) in 1978 on the Evolutionary Operation (EVOP) method of test evaluation and test planning during ongoing industrial operations.

In 1994 he and Friedrich Pukelsheim received the Max Planck Research Award . In 2005 he received the Shewhart Medal . He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association , the Royal Statistical Society , the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Society for Quality .

In 1988/89 he was visiting scholar at the University of Augsburg (with Friedrich Pukelsheim), in 1990 at the University of Southampton and in 1985 at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

Fonts

  • with George EP Box: Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyzes, Wiley 2007 (2nd edition of Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces from 1987)
  • with Harry Smith: Applied Regression Analysis, Wiley 1966, 3rd edition 1998
  • with George EP Box: Evolutionary Operation: a statistical method for process improvement, Wiley 1969, Reprint Wiley Classics 1998
    • German translation: The EVOP process: the industrial process, its control and concurrent optimization, Oldenbourg 1975

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Norman Draper in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  3. ↑ And was at the University's US Army Mathematics Research Center
personal data
SURNAME Draper, Norman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Draper, Norman Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Southampton