About Roger Mead
Lived 1938 – 2015 (aged 76–77). Roger Mead was a British university teacher, statistician, mathematician and scientist.
Roger Mead (1938 – 10 August 2015) was an English statistician and Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics at the University of Reading. He is known for his paper with John Nelder on the widely-used Nelder–Mead method and for his work on statistical methods for agriculture and the design of experiments.
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
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