Francis Anscombe

Francis Anscombe

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name = Francis Anscombe
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birth_date = Birth date|1918|05|13|df=y
birth_place = Hove, East Sussex
death_date = Death date and age|2001|10|17|1918|05|13|df=y
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residence = United Kingdom United States
citizenship = United Kingdom
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field = Statistician
work_institutions = University of Cambridge Rothamsted Experimental Station Princeton University Yale University
alma_mater = Trinity College, Cambridge
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known_for = Analysis of residuals Anscombe's quartet Anscombe transform
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Francis John (Frank) Anscombe (1918-05-13–2001-10-17) was an English statistician. Born in Hove, he was educated at Cambridge University. After wartime service, he joined Rothamsted Experimental Station for two years before returning to Cambridge to lecture. He moved to Princeton University in 1956, and became the founding chairman of the statistics department at Yale University in 1963. [cite news| url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E6DD1231F936A15753C1A9679C8B63| work=New York Times| date=2001-10-25| title=Francis John Anscombe, 83, Mathematician and Professor] .

According to David Cox, his best-known work is probably his definitive 1961 account of the formal properties of residuals in linear regression.cite journal
author = Cox, D.R.
year = 2003
title = Frank Anscombe
journal = Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D
volume = 52
issue = 4
pages = 679
doi = 10.1046/j.0039-0526.2003.02064.x] [cite journal
author = Anscombe, F.J.
coauthors = Tukey, J.W.
year = 1963
title = The Examination and Analysis of Residuals
journal = Technometrics
volume = 5
issue = 2
pages = 141–160
url = http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0040-1706(196305)5%3A2%3C141%3ATEAAOR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0
doi = 10.2307/1266059 ] His earlier suggestion for a variance-stabilizing transformation for Poisson data is often known as the Anscombe transform.cite journal
author = Anscombe, F.J.
year = 1948
title = The Transformation of Poisson, Binomial and Negative-Binomial Data
journal = Biometrika
volume = 35
pages = 246–254
doi=10.1093/biomet/35.3-4.246 ]

He later became interested in statistical computing, and stressed that "a computer should make both calculations "and" graphs", and illustrated the importance of graphing data with four data sets now known as Anscombe's quartet. [cite journal
author = Anscombe, F.J.
year = 1973
title = Graphs in Statistical Analysis
journal = The American Statistician
volume = 27
issue = 1
pages = 17–21
url = http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1305(197302)27%3A1%3C17%3AGISA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J
accessdate = 2008-02-21
doi = 10.2307/2682899] . He later published a textbook on statistical computing in APL. [cite book
author = Anscombe, F.J.
year = 1981
title = Computing in Statistical Science through APL
publisher = Springer-Verlag |city = New York
isbn=3540905499]

He was brother-in-law to another well-known statistician, John Tukey (their wives were sisters).

References

*cite news|url=http://www.yale.edu/opa/v30.n9/story11.html| title= Noted statistician Francis J. Anscombe dies | work=Yale Bulletin & Calendar| date=2001-11-02 | volume=30|number=9

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