William Gemmell Cochran

William Gemmell Cochran (born July 15, 1909 in Rutherglen near Glasgow , Scotland , † March 29, 1980 in Orleans (Massachusetts) ) was a Scottish statistician .

Cochran studied mathematics at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge . From 1934 to 1939 he worked at the Rothamsted Experimental Station , an agricultural culture research center in Harpenden ( Hertfordshire , England ). In the following years he was involved in the establishment of several departments for statistics, including in North Carolina , where he worked with Gertrude Mary Cox on experimental design.

He spent most of his professional career at Harvard University from 1957 until his retirement in 1976.

Cochran wrote a number of articles and books, some of which became standard works. The statistician became known through Cochran's theorem .

Publications

Experimental designs (co-author Gertrude Mary Cox ) 1950 ISBN 0-471-54567-8
Sampling techniques 1952, 1963, 1977, 3rd edition ISBN 0-471-16240-X
- As a German-language translation of Wulf Böing: Sampling 1972, ISBN 3-11-002040-8
Statistical Methods applied to Experiments in Agriculture and Biology by George W. Snedecor (contributions by Cochran from the 5th edition 1956) ISBN 0-8138-1561-4
Planning and analysis of observational studies (edited by Lincoln E. Moses and Frederick Mosteller ) 1983.

personal data
SURNAME	Cochran, William Gemmell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Scottish statistician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 15, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rutherglen near Glasgow , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH	March 29, 1980
Place of death	Orleans, Massachusetts