Richard Loree Anderson

Richard L. Anderson
Born(1915-04-20)April 20, 1915
North Liberty, Indiana, US
DiedFebruary 19, 2003(2003-02-19) (aged 88)
Lexington, Kentucky, US
Alma materIowa State College
DePauw University
Scientific career
FieldsEconometrics
InstitutionsUniversity of Kentucky
North Carolina State University
Doctoral advisorGerhard Tintner
Doctoral studentsGeoffrey Watson

Richard Loree Anderson (April 20, 1915 – February 19, 2003) was an American econometrician. He was a Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University from 1941 to 1966. In 1967, he took up chairmanship of the newly established Department of Statistics at the University of Kentucky, a position he held until 1979.[1] In 1951 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2] While a professor at the University of Kentucky, he consulted with a number of drug companies on clinical trials. Even before, he had been consulting several computer programming companies including IMSL, BMDP, and SAS.[3]

  1. ^ Anderson, R. L. (1982). "My Experience as a Statistician: From the Farm to the University". The Making of Statisticians. Springer. pp. 129–148. ISBN 0-387-90684-3.
  2. ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-07-23.
  3. ^ "Richard L. Anderson: 1915–2003". AMS. Archived from the original on 2016-08-07. Retrieved 2016-04-10.