Colin Lingwood Mallows

Colin Lingwood Mallows
Born(1930-09-10)10 September 1930
Great Sampford, Essex, England
Died4 November 2023(2023-11-04) (aged 93)
Flemington, New Jersey, USA[1]
NationalityEnglish American
EducationUniversity College London
Known forMallows's Cp
Fowlkes–Mallows index
AwardsR. A. Fisher Lectureship
Deming Lectureship
Wilks Memorial Award
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Bell Labs
AT&T Labs
Avaya
Doctoral advisorFlorence Nightingale David
Norman Lloyd Johnson

Colin Lingwood Mallows (10 September 1930 – 4 November 2023) was an English statistician, who worked in the United States from 1960.[2] He was known for Mallows's Cp, a regression model diagnostic procedure, widely used in regression analysis and the Fowlkes–Mallows index, a popular clustering validation criterion.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Dr. Colin Lingwood Mallows". www.wrightfamily.com. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  2. ^ Upton, Graham; Cook, Ian (13 March 2014). "Mallows, Colin L.". A Dictionary of Statistics (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 252. ISBN 9780191044632.
  3. ^ Denby, Lorraine; Landwehr, Jim (2013). "A conversation with Colin L. Mallows" (PDF). International Statistical Review. 81 (3): 338–360. doi:10.1111/insr.12038. S2CID 119937742.
  4. ^ Dalal, Siddhartha; Landwehr, James (2024-04-12). "Colin Lingwood Mallows: a great ambidextrous statistician, 1930–2023". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 187 (2): 553–554. doi:10.1093/jrsssa/qnad141. ISSN 0964-1998.