Mathematician:Joseph Oscar Irwin
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Mathematician
British statistician who advanced the use of statistical methods in biological assay and other fields of laboratory medicine.
Nationality
English
History
- Born: 17 December 1898 in London, England
- Died: 27 July 1982
Theorems and Definitions
- Fisher-Irwin Test (with Ronald Aylmer Fisher), also known as:
- Fisher's Exact Test (for Ronald Aylmer Fisher)
- the Fisher-Yates Test (for Ronald Aylmer Fisher and Frank Yates)
Definitions of concepts named for Joseph Oscar Irwin can be found here.
Publications
- 1927: On the Frequency Distribution of the Means of Samples from a Population Having any Law of Frequency with Finite Moments, with Special Reference to Pearson's Type II (Biometrika Vol. 19: pp. 225 – 239) www.jstor.org/stable/2331960
- 1931: Recent Advances in Mathematical Statistics (J.R. Stat. Soc. Vol. 94: pp. 568 – 578) www.jstor.org/stable/2341934
- 1935: Tests of Significance for Differences between Percentages Based on Small Numbers (METRON Vol. 12: pp. 83 – 94)
- 1963: The Place of Mathematics in Medical and Biological Statistics (J.R. Stat. Soc. Ser. A Vol. 126: pp. 1 – 45) www.jstor.org/stable/2982445
- 1963: Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, 1890–1962 (J.R. Stat. Soc. Ser. A Vol. 126: pp. 159 – 162) www.jstor.org/stable/2982477
- 1975: The Generalized Waring Distribution. Part I (J.R. Stat. Soc. Ser. A Vol. 138: pp. 18 – 31) www.jstor.org/stable/2345247