John Nelder

John Ashworth Nelder FRS
Born(1924-10-08)8 October 1924
Died7 August 2010(2010-08-07) (aged 85)
Luton, Bedfordshire, England
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forGeneralized linear models, analysis of complex experimental designs, Nelder–Mead algorithm, GLIM, GenStat
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society (1976)
Guy Medal (Silver, 1977) (Gold, 2005)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsNational Vegetable Research Station
Rothamsted Experimental Station
Imperial College London

John Ashworth Nelder FRS (8 October 1924 – 7 August 2010) was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory.