Robert Wedderburn (statistician)
Robert William MacLagan Wedderburn (* 1947 in Edinburgh ; † 1975 ) was a British statistician.
Wedderburn studied at Cambridge University and worked with John Nelder at the Rothamstead Experimental Station. Together with him, he introduced the model class of generalized linear models (VLMe) in 1972 . He died of anaphylactic shock after an insect bite when he was only 28 years old .
Fonts
- with John Nelder: Generalized linear models , Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, Volume 135, 1972, pp. 370-384
- Quasi-likelihood functions, generalized linear models, and the Gauss-Newton method , Biometrika, Volume 61, 1974, pp. 439-447
literature
- Obituary by John Nelder, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, Volume 138, 1975, 587
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wedderburn, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wedderburn, Robert William MacLagan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British statistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edinburgh |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1975 |