Roger Mead

{{Short description|English statistician (1938–2015)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Roger Mead''' (1938 – 10 August 2015) was an English [[statistician]] and Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics at the [[University of Reading]].<ref name=reading>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/staffportal/news/articles/spsn-642356.aspx|title=Professor Roger Mead (1938 - 2015) - University of Reading |author=University of Reading |date=17 August 2015 |website=www.reading.ac.uk|language=en-gb|access-date=8 January 2021 }}</ref> He is known for his paper with [[John Nelder]] on the widely-used [[Nelder–Mead method]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nelder|first=J. A.|last2=Mead|first2=R.|date=1965-01-01|title=A Simplex Method for Function Minimization|url=https://academic.oup.com/comjnl/article-abstract/7/4/308/354237?redirectedFrom=fulltext|journal=The Computer Journal|language=en|volume=7|issue=4|pages=308–313|doi=10.1093/comjnl/7.4.308|issn=0010-4620|url-access=subscription}}</ref> and for his work on statistical methods for [[agriculture]] and the [[design of experiments]].<ref name=reading/><ref name=biometric/> He was made an Honorary Life Member of the [[International Biometric Society]] in 2014.<ref name=biometric>{{Cite web|url=https://members.biometricsociety.org/about/our-history/honorary-membership/roger-mead |title=Death of Roger Mead |publisher=The International Biometric Society |access-date=8 January 2021 }}</ref>

==Books== * ''Statistical methods in agriculture and experimental biology'' (with Robert Curnow). 1983 {{ISBN|9780412242304}} * ''The design of experiments: statistical principles for practical applications''. 1988 {{ISBN|9780521245128}} * ''Statistical principles for the design of experiments: applications to real experiments'' (with Steven G. Gilmour and Andrew Mead). 2012 {{ISBN|0521862140}}

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