Roger Mead (1938 – 10 August 2015) was an English

statistician A statistician is a person who works with Theory, theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private sector, private and public sectors. It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, a ...

and Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics at the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christchurch College, Oxford, and became University College, ...

. He is known for his paper with

John Nelder John Ashworth Nelder (8 October 1924 – 7 August 2010) was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. Contributions Nelder's work was infl ...

on the widely-used

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and for his work on statistical methods for

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

and the

design of experiments The design of experiments (DOE), also known as experiment design or experimental design, is the design of any task that aims to describe and explain the variation of information under conditions that are hypothesized to reflect the variation. ...

. He was made an Honorary Life Member of the

International Biometric Society The International Biometric Society (IBS) is an international professional and academic society promoting the development and application of statistical and mathematical theory and methods in the biosciences, including biostatistics. It sponsors t ...

in 2014.

Books

* ''Statistical methods in agriculture and experimental biology'' (with Robert Curnow). 1983 * ''The design of experiments: statistical principles for practical applications''. 1988 * ''Statistical principles for the design of experiments: applications to real experiments'' (with Steven G. Gilmour and Andrew Mead). 2012

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mead, Roger 1938 births 2015 deaths English statisticians Alumni of the University of Cambridge Academics of the University of Reading