John Aitchison

John Aitchison (22 July 1926 – 23 December 2016) was a Scottish statistician.

This article is about the Scottish statistician. For other uses, see John Aitchison (disambiguation).

John Aitchison
Born22 July 1926
East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland
Died23 December 2016 (aged 90)
Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Trinity College, Cambridge
Known forlognormal distribution, logratio approach to compositional data analysis
AwardsGuy Medal, 1982
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1993
William Christian Krumbein Medal, 1995
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
University of Glasgow
University of Liverpool
University of Hong Kong
University of Virginia
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