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William Gemmell Cochran

William Gemmell Cochran (15 July 1909 – 29 March 1980) was a prominent statistician. He was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States.

For other people named William Cochran, see William Cochran (disambiguation).

William G. Cochran

(1909-07-15)July 15, 1909

Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, Scotland[1]

March 29, 1980(1980-03-29) (aged 70)

Orleans, Massachusetts

American

University of Glasgow
University of Cambridge

Cochran's C test
Cochran's Q test
Cochran's theorem
Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel statistics

Statistics

Rothamsted Experimental Station
Iowa State University
North Carolina State University
Johns Hopkins University
Harvard University

John Wishart

Donald Rubin
Calvin Zippin
Helen Abbey
Ralph B. D'Agostino

Cochran studied mathematics at the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge. He worked at Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1934 to 1939, when he moved to the United States. There he helped establish several departments of statistics. His longest spell in any one university was at Harvard, which he joined in 1957 and from which he retired in 1976.

Experimental Designs (with ) 1950 ISBN 0-471-54567-8

Gertrude Mary Cox

Cochran, William G. (1977). Sampling Techniques (Third ed.). Wiley.  0-471-16240-X.

ISBN

Statistical Methods Applied to Experiments in Agriculture and Biology by (Cochran contributed from the fifth (1956) edition) ISBN 0-8138-1561-4

George W. Snedecor

Planning and Analysis of Observational Studies (edited by and Frederick Mosteller) 1983.

Lincoln E. Moses

Cochran wrote many articles and books. His books became standard texts:

Archived 7 July 2005 at the Wayback Machine

Brief biography

Archived 13 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine

ASA biography

Morris Hansen and Frederick Mosteller (1987) William Gemmell Cochran NAS Biographical Memoirs V.56

(1982). "Obituary: William Gemmell Cochran, 1909-1980". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. 145 (4): 521–523. JSTOR 2982120.

Yates, F.

at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

William Gemmell Cochran

Morris Hansen and Frederick Mosteller, "William Gemmell Cochran", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (1987)

(1961; Evaluation of Drug Therapy)

"Designing Clinical Trials"