William Gemmell Cochran

Who is this?

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. 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.

Career

1. 1909
   Born
2. 1936
   Won Guy Medal in Bronze
3. 1942
   Member of Institute of Mathematical Statistics
4. 1942
   Won Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
5. 1959
   Won Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
6. 1964
   Won Guggenheim Fellowship
7. 1967
   Won Wilks Memorial Award
8. 1974
   Member of National Academy of Sciences
9. 1980
   Passed away
10. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
11. Notable work: Cochran's theorem
12. Notable work: Cochran's Q test
13. Notable work: Cochran's C test
14. Notable work: Cochran–Armitage test for trend
15. Notable work: Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel statistics

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Rutherglen
• •Citizenship: United Kingdom, United States
• •Known as: mathematician, statistician, university teacher