John Wishart (statistician)
- John Wishart (statistician)
John Wishart (28 November 1898 – 14 July 1956) was a Scottish agricultural statistician.
He worked successively at University College London with Karl Pearson, at Rothamsted Experimental Station with Ronald Fisher, and then as a reader in statistics at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded a fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1931 and edited "Biometrika" from 1937.
The Wishart distribution and the John Wishart Prize for Statistics are named after him.
Wishart died at age 57 in a bathing accident in Acapulco while representing the Food and Agriculture Organization on a mission to set up a research centre.
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