Charles Dunnett

Charles William Dunnett (24 August 1921 – May 18, 2007) was a Canadian statistician. He was the Statistical Society of Canada 1986 Gold Medalist and Professor Emeritus of the Departments of Mathematics, Statistics, Clinical Epidemiology, and Biostatistics of McMaster University.

Two of his papers[1][2] are listed among the top 25 most-cited papers in statistics (numbers 14 and 21 in the list).[3] In 1965 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[4]

Dunnett died on 18 May 2007 from lymphoma.[5]

  1. ^ Dunnett C. W. (1955.) "A multiple comparison procedure for comparing several treatments with a control", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 50:1096–1121.
  2. ^ Dunnett C. W. (1964.) "New tables for multiple comparisons with a control", Biometrics, 20:482–491.
  3. ^ The most cited statistical papers Archived October 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-08-20.
  5. ^ "Dean's Newsletter" (PDF). McMaster University Health Sciences. Fall 2007. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-10-29.