(1920– ) English statistician. Plackett was a co-author of the 1946 paper that introduced Plackett and Burman designs (see factorial experiment). Formerly a lecturer at U Liverpool, in 1962 Plackett was appointed Professor of Statistics at U Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was awarded the Guy Medal in Bronze of the RSS in 1968, gaining the Guy Medal in Silver in 1973, and in Gold in 1987 (one of only two individuals to have the full set — the other is Armitage).
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Robin L. Plackett (15 September 1920 – 23 June 2009[1]) was a statistician best known for his contributions to the history of statistics and to experimental design, most notably the Plackett–Burman designs.
He was the first professor of statistics at Newcastle University and held the post until his retirement in 1983. In 1987 the Royal Statistical Society awarded him the Guy Medal in Gold, having awarded him both the bronze and silver medals earlier in his career.
He authored several books on statistics, including Principles of Regression Analysis (1960), The Analysis of Categorical Data (1974) and An Introduction to the Interpretation of Quantal Responses in Biology (1979, with P. S. Hewlett).
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- ^ "Births, marriages and deaths: Robin Plackett". The Times. 2009-06-27. http://www.legacy.com/timesonline-uk/Obituaries.asp?Page=Notice&PersonID=128949562. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
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- Coleman, Shirley (2005). "Facing the future with confidence". Scientific Computing World (October/November 2005): 39. http://www.enbis.org/docs/magazine/2005/october_2005.
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