On this day in 1909 William Gemmell Cochran, Scottish mathematician, was born in Rutherglen. Cochran is highly regarded in the field of statistics, having carried out fundamental work on the design of agricultural experiments, forecasting the effects of weather on crop yields and sample survey design. During the Second World War he worked in America, examining probabilities of hits in naval warfare, and by 1945 he was working on bombing raid strategies.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 06:19:03 +0000
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