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Richard Loree Anderson

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Richard L. Anderson
Born(1915-04-20)April 20, 1915
DiedFebruary 19, 2003(2003-02-19) (aged 88)
Alma materIowa State College
DePauw University
Scientific career
FieldsEconometrics
InstitutionsUniversity of Kentucky
North Carolina State University
Doctoral advisorGerhard Tintner
Doctoral studentsGeoffrey Watson

Richard Loree Anderson (April 20, 1915 – February 19, 2003) was an American econometrician. He was a Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University from 1941 to 1966. In 1967, he took up chairmanship of the newly established Department of Statistics at the University of Kentucky, a position he held until 1979.[1] In 1951 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2] While a professor at the University of Kentucky, he consulted with a number of drug companies on clinical trials. Even before, he had been consulting several computer programming companies including IMSL, BMDP, and SAS.[3]

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  1. ^ Anderson, R. L. (1982). "My Experience as a Statistician: From the Farm to the University". The Making of Statisticians. Springer. pp. 129–148. ISBN 0-387-90684-3.
  2. ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-07-23.
  3. ^ "Richard L. Anderson: 1915–2003". AMS. Archived from the original on 2016-08-07. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
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