Roger Mead

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. He was made an Honorary Life Member of the International Biometric Society in 2014.

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References

  1. 1 2 University of Reading (17 August 2015). "Professor Roger Mead (1938 - 2015) - University of Reading". www.reading.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  2. ↑ Nelder, J. A.; Mead, R. (1 January 1965). "A Simplex Method for Function Minimization". The Computer Journal. 7 (4): 308–313. doi:10.1093/comjnl/7.4.308. ISSN 0010-4620.
  3. 1 2 "Death of Roger Mead". The International Biometric Society. Retrieved 8 January 2021.