John F. MacGregor

John F. MacGregor
AwardsShewhart Medal (1997)
Scientific career
Doctoral advisorGeorge E. P. Box

John Frederick MacGregor (born 1943 in Ontario, Canada) is a statistician whose work in the field of statistical process control has received significant recognition. His pioneering work was in the area of latent variable/multivariate analysis (MVA) methods (principal components analysis and partial least squares) applied to industrial processes.