Nationality American Fields Statistics | Role Author Name William Youden | |
Born 12 April 1900
Townsville, Australia ( 1900-04-12 ) Institutions National Bureau of Standards
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Alma mater University of Rochester Died March 31, 1971, Washington, D.C., United States Books Experimentation and Measurement Awards Shewhart Medal, Wilks Memorial Award | ||
Education University of Rochester | ||
William John Youden (April 12, 1900 – March 31, 1971) was a statistician who formulated new statistical techniques in statistical analysis and in designs for experimenters. He developed the "Youden square", an incomplete block design developed from a 1937 paper, "Use of Incomplete Block Replications in Estimating Tobacco Mosaic Virus". He also helped to introduce the concept of restricted randomization, which he called constrained randomization.
In 1951 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. The American Statistical Association bestows the W. J. Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing to authors "of publications that make outstanding contributions to the design and/or analysis of interlaboratory tests or describe ingenious approaches to the planning and evaluation of data from such tests." The award is presented each year at the Joint Statistical Meetings.