Forrest W. Young

Forrest W. Young
Forrest W. Young
Born	April 10, 1940
Died	2006
Education	University of Southern California
	Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Workplaces	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thesis	A multidimensional similarities analysis of twelve choice probability learning with payoffs (1967)
Doctoral advisor	Norman Cliff

Forrest Wesley Young (April 10, 1940 – 2006) was a professor emeritus of quantitative psychology at the University of North Carolina and President of the Psychometric Society. He is the developer of ViSta a software for data visualization.

Books

Schiffman, S.S., Reynolds, M.L. & Young, F.W. (1981). Introduction to Multidimensional Scaling. New York: Academic Press.
Young, F.W. & Sarle, W.S. (1982). Exploratory Multivariate Data Analysis. Cary, NC: SAS Institute, Inc.
Young, F.W. & Hamer, R.M. (1987). Multidimensional Scaling: History, Theory and Applications. New York: Erlbaum Associates. (reprinted, 1994)

↑ "Past, Present and Incoming Presidents". psychometricsociety.org. Psychometric Society. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
↑ Valero-Mora, Pedro; Ledesma, Rubén D.; Friendly, Michael (1 May 2012). "The History of ViSta: The Visual Statistics System". WIREs Comput Stat. 4 (3): 295–306. doi:10.1002/wics.1203. hdl:11336/273318.

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Forrest W. Young
Born	(1940-04-10)April 10, 1940
Died	2006
Education	University of Southern California
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Workplaces	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thesis	A multidimensional similarities analysis of twelve choice probability learning with payoffs (1967)
Doctoral advisor	Norman Cliff