Terence Michael Frederick Smith (18 January 1934 – 7 December 2019) was a British

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known for his research in survey sampling. Fred Smith gained his first degree in 1959. He succeeded Prof

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as Professor of Statistics at the

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in 1975. He received the

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in bronze from the

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in 1979. In 1983 he was elected as a

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. He was

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of the

in 1991–1993. (Portrait of T. M. F. Smith on page 144) The

lists Smith as the 1991–1993 President in its list of presidents of the Royal Statistical Society, which available on-line
List of presidents

Selected bibliography

* * (Portrait of T. M. F. Smith on page 144) * * *

References

Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society Survey methodologists British statisticians Statistics educators Academics of the University of Southampton British social scientists 20th-century British mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians 2019 deaths 1934 births Fellows of the American Statistical Association {{UK-academic-bio-stub