Richard B. McHugh

Richard Burton McHugh (October 25, 1923 – June 1, 2016) was an American statistician. McHugh was a professor of biometry at University of Minnesota School of Public Health for over 30 years.

Early life and education McHugh was born in Villard, Minnesota McHugh earned a doctor of philosophy at University of Minnesota in 1954. His dissertation was titled On the scaling of psychological data by latent structure analysis. His advisors were Leonid Hurwicz and Jacob Bearman. In 1956 he began working at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis as Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health; he became Professor of Biometry in 1961; and was appointed Professor and Director, Division of Biometry in 1968.

He was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1967.

Personal life A practicing Roman Catholic, Richard McHugh was married to Rosemary McHugh, nee Jarvis, with whom he had 2 daughters and 3 sons. He was preceded in death by his wife, daughter and 10 siblings.