Richard Loree Anderson (April 20, 1915 – February 19, 2003) was an American econometrician. He was a Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University from 1941 to 1966. In 1967, he took up chairmanship of the newly established Department of Statistics at the University of Kentucky, a position he held until 1979.[1] In 1951 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2] While a professor at the University of Kentucky, he consulted with a number of drug companies on clinical trials. Even before, he had been consulting several computer programming companies including IMSL, BMDP, and SAS.[3]
Richard L. Anderson | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 20, 1915 |
| Died | February 19, 2003 (aged 88) |
| Alma mater | Iowa State College DePauw University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Econometrics |
| Institutions | University of Kentucky North Carolina State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Gerhard Tintner |
| Doctoral students | Geoffrey Watson |
References
edit- ^ Anderson, R. L. (1982). "My Experience as a Statistician: From the Farm to the University". The Making of Statisticians. Springer. pp. 129–148. ISBN 0-387-90684-3.
- ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-07-23.
- ^ "Richard L. Anderson: 1915–2003". AMS. Archived from the original on 2016-08-07. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
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