Oscar Kempthorne | |
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| Born | January 31, 1919 |
| Died | November 15, 2000 (aged 81) |
| Alma mater | Clare College at Cambridge University |
| Known for | Randomization analysis of randomized experiments "Iowa school" of analysis of variance Design of experiments Genetics |
| Awards | President of the International Biometric Society 1961 President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1984-5 Fellow of the American Statistical Association Fellow of the AAAS Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics Genetics Philosophy of science |
| Institutions | Rothamsted Experimental Station Iowa State University |
| Academic advisors | Joseph Oscar Irwin |
| Doctoral students | Charles Roy Henderson |
Oscar Kempthorne (January 31, 1919 – November 15, 2000) was a British statistician and geneticist known for his research on randomization-analysis and the design of experiments, which had wide influence on research in agriculture, genetics, and other areas of science.
Born in St Tudy, Cornwall and educated in England, Kempthorne moved to the United States, where he was for many decades a professor of statistics at Iowa State University.