- Gwilym Jenkins
Gwilym Meirion Jenkins (1933 –
July 10 ,1982 ) was a Britishstatistician andsystems engineer . His most notable contribution was pioneering work with George Box onautoregressive moving average model s, also calledBox-Jenkins models, intime-series analysis .He earned a first class honors degree in Mathematics in 1953 followed by a Ph.D. at
University College London in 1956. After graduating, he married the former Margaret Bellingham and together they raised three children. His first job out of school was junior fellow at theRoyal Aircraft Establishment . He followed this by a series of visiting lecturer and professor positions atImperial College London ,Stanford University ,Princeton University , and theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison , before settling in as a professor ofSystems Engineering atLancaster University in 1965. His initial work concerned discrete time domain models forChemical Engineering applications.While at Lancaster, he founded and became managing director of ISCOL (International Systems Corporation Of Lancaster). He remained in academia until 1974, when he left to start his own consulting company.
He served on the Research Section Committee and Council of the
Royal Statistical Society in the 1960s, founded theJournal of Systems Engineering in 1969, and briefly carried out public duties with the Royal Treasury in the mid-1970s. He was elected to theInstitute of Mathematical Statistics and theInstitute of Statisticians .He was a jazz and blues enthusiast and an accomlished pianist.
He succumbed to
Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1982.Books by G. M. Jenkins
* "Spectral analysis and its applications" (with D. G. Watts) 1968
* "Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control" (with G. E. P. Box) 1970
* "Practical experience with modelling and forecasting time series" 1979
* "Case studies in time series analysis" (with G. McLeod) 1983Obituary
* G. E. P. Box (1983) G. M. Jenkins, 1933-1982
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society . Series A (General), Vol. 146, No. 2, pp. 205-206.External links
* [http://halweb.uc3m.es/esp/Personal/personas/dpena/articles/boxIJFinter4.PDF George Box's Interview for the International Journal of Forecasting]
* [http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=42256 Mathematics Genealogy Project: G. M. Jenkins]
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