John Wishart (statistician)

John Wishart (statistician)

Died aged 57SagittariusUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Biography

John Wishart (28 November 1898 – 14 July 1956) was a Scottish mathematician and agricultural statistician.

He gave his name to the Wishart distribution in statistics.

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Career highlights

Employers / organisations

  • Rothamsted Research
  • University of Cambridge
  • Black Watch
  • West Leeds High School
  • University College London
  • British Army

Notable works

  • Wishart distribution
  • Wishart mixture model
  • Inverse-Wishart distribution

Awards & honours (3)

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Fellow of the American Statistical Association
  • Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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