| William John Youden | |
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| Born | (1900-04-12)12 April 1900 Townsville, Australia |
| Died | 31 March 1971(1971-03-31) (aged 70) Washington, D.C. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Rochester |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | National Bureau of Standards Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research |
William John Youden (April 12, 1900 – March 31, 1971) was an Australian-born American statistician who formulated new statistical techniques in statistical analysis and in design of experiments. He developed the "Youden square", an incomplete block design developed from a 1937 paper, "Use of Incomplete Block Replications in Estimating Tobacco Mosaic Virus". He also helped to introduce the concept of restricted randomization, which he called constrained randomization. He devised Youden's J statistic as a simple measure summarising the performance of a binary diagnostic test.
In 1951, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. The American Statistical Association bestows the W. J. Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing to authors "of publications that make outstanding contributions to the design and/or analysis of interlaboratory tests or describe ingenious approaches to the planning and evaluation of data from such tests." The award is presented each year at the Joint Statistical Meetings.
In 1967, Youden served as president of the Philosophical Society of Washington, a science organization.
References
- "Youden, William John.", Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Retrieved April 09, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com
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- Churchill Eisenhart and Joan R. Rosenblatt. W. J. Youden, 1900–1971, The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Aug., 1972), pp. 1035–1040
- Cornell, John A. W.J. Youden – The Man and his Methodology, ASQC Statistics Division Newsletter, Vol. 13, No. 2
- Youden, W.J. (1950). "Index for rating diagnostic tests". Cancer. 3 (1): 32–35. doi:10.1002/1097-0142(1950)3:1<32::aid-cncr2820030106>3.0.co;2-3. PMID 15405679.
- View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-07-23.
- http://www.amstat.org/awards/wjyoudenaward.cfm
- "Past Presidents". PSW Science. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "William John Youden", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews