Aimable Robert Jonckheere

Aimable Robert Jonckheere
Born(1920-05-25)25 May 1920
Hem, France
Died24 September 2005(2005-09-24) (aged 85)
London
Known forJonckheere's trend test
Academic background
Alma materUniversity College London
ThesisA study of 'fixation' behaviour in the rat (1956)
Academic work
DisciplinePsychology, Statistics

Aimable Robert Jonckheere (25 May 1920 – 24 September 2005), commonly known by friends and colleagues as "Jonck", was a psychologist and statistician at University College London (UCL).[1] He is probably best known for his work in nonparametric statistics, where he has a test named after him: Jonckheere's trend test.[2]

  1. ^ Gregory, Richard L. (21 October 2005). "AR Jonckheere: Intellectual fascinated by the philosophy of perception". Guardian. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  2. ^ Jonckheere, A. R. (1954). "A distribution-free k-sample test against ordered alternatives". Biometrika. 41 (1/2): 133–145. doi:10.2307/2333011. JSTOR 2333011.