John Wishart (statistician)

John Wishart
Born(1898-11-28)28 November 1898
Montrose, Scotland
Died14 July 1956(1956-07-14) (aged 57)
Acapulco, Mexico
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
University of Cambridge
University College London
Scientific career
InstitutionsRothamsted Experimental Station
University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisorKarl Pearson
Doctoral studentsM. S. Bartlett
William Gemmell Cochran
Herman Otto Hartley

John Wishart FRSE (28 November 1898 – 14 July 1956) was a Scottish mathematician and agricultural statistician.

He gave his name to the Wishart distribution in statistics.[1]

  1. ^ Sinha, Sitabhra; Chatterjee, Arnab; Chakraborti, Anirban; Chakraborti, Bikas K. (2011). Econophysics : an introduction (1st ed.). Weinheim: Wiley-VCH. ISBN 978-3-527-40815-3. OCLC 699340125.