John Ashworth Nelder (1924 to 2010) was a British statistician who read mathematics at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and spent most of his career in agricultural research, as head of statistics at the National Vegetable Research Station at Wellesbourne and then at Rothamsted Experimental Station. With Robert Wedderburn he proposed the generalized linear model, which unified linear, logistic and Poisson regression under one framework fitted by iteratively reweighted least squares, and he led the development of the statistical software packages GLIM and GenStat. With Roger Mead he devised the Nelder-Mead simplex method for response-surface optimization, and he argued with George Barnard and A. W. F. Edwards for the likelihood approach to inference. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and received the Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Gold in 2005.
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Professor J. A. Nelder, FRS, statistician, was born on October 8, 1924.
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He is survived by his wife, Mary, whom he married in 1955, and their son and daughter.
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(8 October 1924-7 August 2010) was a British statistician
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He was also the recipient of the inaugural Karl Pearson Prize of the International Statistical Institute
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