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John Ashworth Nelder FRS (8 October 1924 – 7 August 2010) was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory.
John Ashworth Nelder (Dulverton, 8 ottobre 1924 – Luton, 7 agosto 2010) è stato uno statistico britannico che lavorò alla celebre Rothamsted Experimental Station. Sviluppò, insieme a Robert Wedderburn il Modello lineare generalizzato.
John Nelder was a statistician who made important contributions to applied statistical theory, of which three are notable: his work on general balance; his influential collaboration with Robert Wedderburn and later Peter McCullagh on the development of generalized linear models (GLMs); and his post-retirement collaboration with Youngjo Lee on ...
- Stephen Senn
- 2019
21 ott 2011 · The Nelder-Mead algorithm or simplex search algorithm, originally published in 1965 (Nelder and Mead, 1965), is one of the best known algorithms for multidimensional unconstrained optimization without derivatives.
14 mar 2011 · John Ashworth Nelder died on Saturday, August 7th, 2010, in Luton and Dunstable Hospital UK following a fall at his home. He was a pioneer of statistical computing and made major contributions to experimental design, numerical minimization, statistical modelling and statistical computation.
Abstract. John Ashworth Nelder was born in 1924 in Dulverton, Somerset, England. He received his secondary education in nearby Tiverton at Blun- dell's, a "public" [that is to say, privately funded] school that he attended as a day pupil. In 1942, he entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Univer- sity, to read mathematics.
He is a familiar figure at Harpenden Station, waiting to catch the train to London. John Nelder has received many honors for his statistical work. He was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver of the Royal Statistical Society in 1977 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981.
