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In subsection A below, listed are articles which are missing from the List of statisticians. They were found by looking in the categories in subsection C. One can add more categories to be searched to subsection C, see some suggestions in subsection D.

All this process can be restarted by clicking on the link at the bottom of subsection E.

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A: Articles missing from the List of statisticians

Aimable Robert Jonckheere -- Andreas Schleicher -- Annette Dobson -- Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh -- Cathie Marsh -- Eleanor Josephine Macdonald -- István Vincze (mathematician) -- Julien Amegandjin -- K. Ruben Gabriel -- Methodological advisor -- Michael George Mulhall -- Pascual Madoz -- Peter Diggle -- Raymond J. Carroll -- Sixto Ríos -- A. Maceo Walker -- Charles Ives -- Edmund Berkeley -- Henry Louis Rietz -- Howard Winklevoss -- James Waterman Glover -- Michael Shackleford -- Miles Menander Dawson -- Nathaniel Bowditch -- Robert J. Myers -- Ward Whitt -- A. Ross Eckler Jr. -- Aaron Schatz -- Abraham Silvers -- Acheson J. Duncan -- Albert H. Bowker -- Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid -- Allan L. McCutcheon -- Andrew Gelman -- Aryness Joy Wickens -- Ashish Sen -- Beatrice Aitchison -- Benjamin Drake Wright -- Benjamin Peirce -- Betz Halloran -- Bin Yu -- Bruce Cooil -- Bruce G. Lindsay -- C. Louis Kincannon -- C.-F. Jeff Wu -- Catherine Sugar -- Charles Felton Pidgin -- Christopher A. Sims -- Chuck Waseleski -- Chung Kai-lai -- Clem Comly -- Clifford Clogg -- Cuthbert Daniel -- Cyrus Derman -- David A. Freedman -- David Berri -- David Dickey -- David Dunson -- David L. Banks -- David Madigan -- David Neft -- David Rothman (statistician) -- David S. Moore -- David Siegmund -- Dick Goddard -- Dirk Eddelbuettel -- Donald Allan Darling -- Donald L. Beggs -- Dorothy Swaine Thomas -- Drew Cannon -- Duane Ilstrup -- Edward Jarvis (physician) -- Edward William Barankin -- Elizabeth A. Stuart -- Elizabeth Loftus -- Frank Anscombe -- Frauke Kreuter -- Frederick Ludwig Hoffman -- Geoffrey Shepherd -- George Casella -- George Gallup, Jr. -- Gilbert Wheeler Beebe -- Greg Ridgeway -- Gábor J. Székely -- Harold Thayer Davis -- Harrison Wadsworth, Jr. -- Harvey Pollack -- Helen Berg -- Helen M. Walker -- Henry Mann -- Herbert Solomon -- Horace G. Wadlin -- Howard B. Myers -- Howard Friedman -- Howard Wainer -- Ida Craven Merriam -- Isaac Hourwich -- Jack Kiefer (statistician) -- James Beckett (statistician) -- James Elsner -- James H. Ware -- Janet L. Norwood -- Jeff Gill -- Jie Chen (statistician) -- Jim Berger (statistician) -- John Christian Bailar -- John E. Freund -- John H. Thompson -- John Neter -- Joseph Born Kadane -- Joseph Lawson Hodges, Jr. -- Justin Jacobs -- Karl G. Karsten -- Kate Calder -- Kate Claghorn -- Katherine Wallman -- Kathryn Chaloner -- Ken Pomeroy -- Kenneth A. Bollen -- Kenneth Levenberg -- Ledyard Tucker -- Lee-Jen Wei -- Leo Goodman -- Leo Katz (statistician) -- Lisa Goldberg -- Lurdes Inoue -- Lynn Eberly -- Lynne Billard -- Malay Ghosh -- Marc A. Suchard -- Margaret E. Martin -- Margaret Jarman Hagood -- Marguerite Frank -- Martin R. Gainsbrugh -- Meyer Dwass -- Micah Altman -- Michael Katehakis -- Michael R. Powers -- Mimi Kim -- Morton Klein -- Moshe Shaked -- Nancy Bates -- Nicole Lazar -- Olive Jean Dunn -- Paul F. Velleman -- Peter J. Bickel -- Peter Nemenyi -- Philip Wolfe (mathematician) -- Pranab K. Sen -- R. Barker Bausell -- R. Dennis Cook -- R. Tyrrell Rockafellar -- Rebecca Goldin -- Richard Loree Anderson -- Robert Goodell Brown -- Robert Groves -- Robert V. Hogg -- Roger J-B Wets -- Roland P. Falkner -- Rosedith Sitgreaves -- Ruth J. Williams -- Sam Weerahandi -- Samuel Sanford Shapiro -- Selma Fine Goldsmith -- Sophia Rabe-Hesketh -- Stanley Wasserman -- Stephen Raudenbush -- Steve Selvin -- Steven Damelin -- Steven Neil Evans -- Story Musgrave -- Stuart Geman -- Thomas Mesenbourg -- Travis Oliphant -- Ulf Grenander -- Vanja Dukic -- Victor Niederhoffer -- Wally Smith (mathematician) -- Wayne Fuller -- Wes McKinney -- Wilfrid Dixon -- William J. Youden -- Wing Hung Wong -- Xihong Lin -- Yoonkyung Lee -- Yulia Gel -- Zhiliang Ying -- Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum -- Aurore Delaigle -- Bronwyn Harch -- Edward J. Hannan -- Eugene Seneta -- Graham Hilford Pollard -- Helen Alma Newton Turner -- Josiah Boothby -- Kerrie Mengersen -- Malcolm Mackerras -- Noel Cressie -- P. A. P. Moran -- Philip R. N. Sutton -- Rob J. Hyndman -- Roland Wilson (economist) -- Roy Cameron (statistician) -- Steven Stern -- W. T. Williams -- William Cole (public servant) -- Anton Formann -- Anton Leo Hickmann -- Erich Neuwirth -- Gaston Bodart -- Hilda Geiringer -- Klaus Kubinger -- Siegfried Becher -- Wolfgang Lutz -- Jacques Drèze -- Peter Rousseeuw -- Alexander Webster -- Bill Cooper (sailor) -- Bryn Davies -- David Kendix -- David Paulin -- George Barrett (actuary) -- George James Lidstone -- James Crosby (banker) -- John Finlaison -- Joseph Burn -- Thomas Bond Sprague -- Thomas Galloway -- Thomas Rowe Edmonds -- William Morgan (actuary) -- Adrian Smith (statistician) -- Alexander Tulloch -- Alfred Bateman -- Alfred William Flux -- Alice Lee -- Anatoly Zhigljavsky -- Ann Cartwright -- Charlotte Kipling -- Clara Collet -- D. J. Bartholomew -- David Firth (statistician) -- Deborah Ashby -- Denise Lievesley -- E. F. Schumacher -- Edward H. Simpson -- Frederick Harcourt Kitchin -- G. Phillips Bevan -- George Richardson Porter -- Henry William Durant -- Henry William Macrosty -- Henry Wynn -- Herbert Arthur Frederick Turner -- Herbert Edward Soper -- Hilda Mary Woods -- Ian Diamond -- Jervoise Athelstane Baines -- John Brownlee (statistician) -- John C. Gittins -- John Johnston (econometrician) -- John Micklewright -- John Pullinger -- John Shawe-Taylor -- Julian Besag -- Kevin Schürer -- Martin Bland -- Matt Singh -- Nick Day -- Peter G. Moore -- Peter Lee (chess player) -- Phil Scarf -- R. Henry Rew -- Rawson W. Rawson -- Reuben Smeed -- Richard Mott (statistician) -- Rosa Lee -- Sheila Bird -- Simon Godsill -- T. M. F. Smith -- Tata Subba Rao -- Thomas Graham Balfour -- Thomas H. Leonard -- Wilfrid Kendall -- William G. Hill -- Bojidar Spiriev -- Harry Panjer -- Jagannath Wani -- Robert Astley -- Thomas Bassett Macaulay -- Boris Sobolev -- Christian Genest -- Cindy Greenwood -- Cyril Goulden -- David J. Thomson -- Donald A. S. Fraser -- Douglas Wiens -- Grace Y. Yi -- Larry A. Wasserman -- Michael A. Newton -- Mir Maswood Ali -- Pierre Perron -- Robert Gentleman (statistician) -- Tom Tango -- W. K. Hastings -- Yihui Xie -- Adolph Jensen -- Arent Berntsen -- Bent Jørgensen (statistician) -- Kirstine Smith -- Ole Barndorff-Nielsen -- Søren Johansen -- Aad van der Vaart -- Herman J. Adèr -- Jan de Leeuw -- Mark J. van der Laan -- Rehuel Lobatto -- Sara van de Geer -- Tom Snijders -- Willem Saris -- Arthur Black (mathematician) -- Arthur Young (agriculturist) -- Barry Hugman -- David Jesson -- Denis Sargan -- Edward Carleton Tufnell -- Edward Wakefield (statistician) -- Ethel Newbold -- George Paine (civil servant) -- John Edmund Kerrich -- John Gordon Skellam -- John Heysham -- L. H. C. Tippett -- Patrick Michael Grundy -- Paul Fearnhead -- Raphael Weldon -- Richard Samworth -- Roger Thatcher -- Ronald Fisher bibliography -- Rosemary A. Bailey -- Steffen Lauritzen -- Tony Greenfield -- Victor Turner (civil servant) -- Gustav Elfving -- Kari Karhunen -- Karl Ferdinand Ignatius -- Leo Törnqvist -- Pentti Saikkonen -- Alfred Legoyt -- Clément Juglar -- Dominique Picard -- Eric Walter -- Gérard Théodore -- Jacques Bertillon -- Ludovic Lebart -- Marcel-Paul Schützenberger -- Maurice René Fréchet -- Yves Dassonville -- August Meitzen -- Friedhelm Eicker -- Friedrich von Hermann -- Georg Hassel -- Gotthilf Hagen -- Gustav Rümelin -- Johann Georg Büsch -- Karl Becker (statistician) -- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterici -- Klaus Matthes -- Michael Wolf (statistician) -- Peter Schönemann -- Richard van der Borght -- Andrew Kalotay -- András Vargha -- Eugene Lukacs -- A. R. D. Prasad -- Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay -- Anil Kumar Bhattacharya -- Anirudh Lal Nagar -- Arup Bose -- B. L. S. Prakasa Rao -- Bani K Mallick -- C. R. Rao -- Chidambara Chandrasekaran -- Gopinath Kallianpur -- K. R. Parthasarathy (probabilist) -- Nilanjan Chatterjee -- P. A. V. B. Swamy -- Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme -- Probal Chaudhuri -- Radha Laha -- Raj Chandra Bose -- Ramanathan Gnanadesikan -- Samarendra Nath Roy -- Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande -- Sudipto Banerjee -- Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi -- Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw -- William Shaw Mason -- William Thompson (physician) -- Alberto Beneduce -- Alfredo Niceforo -- Angelo Messedaglia -- Antonio Gabaglio -- Costantino Bresciani Turroni -- Enrico Giovannini -- Francesco Paolo Cantelli -- Gaetano Pietra -- Giorgio Mortara -- Giuseppe Pompilj -- Guglielmo Tagliacarne -- Guido Castelnuovo -- Marcello Boldrini -- Nora Federici -- Oscar Chisini -- Rodolfo Benini -- Sergio DellaPergola -- Vittorio Castellano -- Hirotugu Akaike -- Edward John von Dadelszen -- George Arthur Frederick Seber -- Hadley Wickham -- Mike Steel (mathematician) -- Whetumarama Wereta -- Andreas Tømmerbakke -- Henrik Palmstrøm -- Sverre Krogh (editor) -- Boye Strøm -- Dag Tjøstheim -- Emil Spjøtvoll -- Erling Sverdrup -- Espen Søbye -- Gunnar Jahn -- Ivar Kristianslund -- Lars Havstad -- Nicolai Rygg -- Petter Jakob Bjerve -- Signy Arctander -- Simen Skappel -- Viggo Johannessen -- Abid Ali Kazi -- Muneer Ahmad Rashid -- Anton Golopenția -- Sabin Manuilă -- Zamfir Arbore -- Aleksandr Artemyev -- Andrey Markov -- Nail Bakirov -- Nikolai Smirnov (mathematician) -- James Cleland (statistician) -- Peter Boyle (epidemiologist) -- Robert Barclay (statistician) -- Walter Thom -- Andrew Samson -- Charles M. Stein -- David Heron (statistician) -- Elizabeth M. Ward -- John W. Pratt -- Naihua Duan -- Harry Nyquist -- Per Martin-Löf -- Anders Martin-Löf -- Carl-Erik Quensel -- Carl-Gustav Esseen -- Conny Palm -- Hans Rosling -- Lennart Ljung (engineer) -- Nanny Wermuth -- Ola Rosling -- Svante Janson -- Sven Dag Wicksell -- Peter J. Huber -- Yadolah Dodge -- Almarin Phillips -- Alvin Hansen -- Arthur F. Burns -- Charles Davenport -- Clifford Hildreth -- Clyde Coombs -- Dorothy Brady -- Edmund Ezra Day -- Edward Thorndike -- Edward Vermilye Huntington -- Edwin Francis Gay -- Elihu Root -- Ethelbert Stewart -- Everett Franklin Lindquist -- Ewan Clague -- F. Stuart Chapin -- Francis X. Schumacher -- Franklin Henry Giddings -- Frederick Macaulay -- Geoffrey H. Moore -- George E. Roberts -- George Katona -- George Kuznets -- George O. May -- George Stigler -- Georges Darmois -- Gerhard Tintner -- Guy Orcutt -- Harold Gulliksen -- Harold Rugg -- Harry Alpert -- Harvey M. Wagner -- Hendrik S. Houthakker -- Hugo Christiaan Hamaker -- Ingram Olkin -- Ira Longini -- Irene Barnes Taeuber -- Isador Lubin -- Jackson A. Rigney -- James Arthur Harris -- James Heckman -- Jan Hemelrijk -- Jan Tinbergen -- John Whitefield Kendrick -- Joseph Zubin -- Karin Kock-Lindberg -- Karl A. Fox -- Katharine Abraham -- Lee Cronbach -- Leo Wolman -- Lewis Henry Haney -- List of Fellows of the American Statistical Association -- Lowell Reed -- Malcolm C. Rorty -- Marc Nerlove -- Marvin Zelen -- Mary van Kleeck -- Morris H. Hansen -- Nathan Keyfitz -- Oskar Morgenstern -- Paul Douglas -- Paul Lazarsfeld -- Philip Hauser -- Raymond W. Goldsmith -- Richard Ruggles -- Robert Abelson -- Robert L. Kahn -- Robert R. Nathan -- S. N. D. North -- Samuel Kotz -- Sanjay Shete -- Stanley Lebergott -- Theodore O. Yntema -- Thomas N.E. Greville -- Tjalling Koopmans -- Walter W. Stewart (economist) -- Willard C. Brinton -- Winfield W. Riefler -- Martin Beale -- Michael Ward (economist) -- List of Presidents of the Econometric Society -- List of presidents of the Associação Brasileira de Estatística -- Richard Fletcher (American politician) -- Donald Burkholder -- Joseph L. Doob -- Patrick Billingsley -- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan -- Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott -- Charles Booth (social reformer) -- Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon -- Geoffrey Heyworth, 1st Baron Heyworth -- Hector Leak -- Hugh Beaver -- James Caird (politician) -- James Heywood (philanthropist) -- James Meston, 1st Baron Meston -- Paul Chambers (industrialist) -- Reginald Welby, 1st Baron Welby -- Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow -- Sir Francis Powell, 1st Baronet -- T. H. C. Stevenson -- Valerie Isham -- William Ewart Gladstone -- William Piercy, 1st Baron Piercy -- Clark Manning -- Dominic Kiarie -- Eugenius Nulty -- Ian Isles -- Tan Suee Chieh -- William Makeham -- Abhaya Indrayan -- Andrew Vickers -- Brian Caffo -- Chris Ernesto -- Christl Donnelly -- Hal V. Barron -- Ian Ford -- José María Valderas Martínez -- Karen Duncan -- Nelly Leon-Chisen -- Raymond F. Palmer -- Ritam Chowdhury -- Roxana Moslehi -- Sepp Hochreiter -- Anatole Romaniuk -- Andrey Korotayev -- Ashish Bose -- Carolyn Makinson -- Charles Shahar -- Daria Khaltourina -- David Canning -- David Foot -- Edward Alsworth Ross -- Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein -- Hu Huanyong -- Jacob Lestschinsky -- John Bongaarts -- Karol Józef Krótki -- Leonid Gavrilov -- Liebmann Hersch -- Richard Gisser -- David Forbes Hendry -- Edward William Brabrook -- Frank Kelly (mathematician) -- Joseph Shield Nicholson -- Ralph George Hawtrey -- Sydney Chapman (economist) -- Alan Turing -- Ben Goertzel -- Bing Liu -- Hans-Peter Kriegel -- Heikki Mannila -- Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia -- Jiawei Han -- Jie Tang -- Johannes Gehrke -- Osmar R. Zaiane -- Raghu Ramakrishnan -- Rexer's Annual Data Miner Survey -- Robert P. Schumaker -- Goronwy Daniel --

B: Place here articles not wanted either in the List of statisticians or in subsection A.

Lukacs Distinguished Professor -- Royal Statistical Society -- List of presidents of the American Statistical Association -- List of presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics -- List of presidents of the Royal Statistical Society -- List of presidents of the Statistical Society of Canada -- Fictional actuaries -- Statistical consultant -- President of the American Statistical Association -- President of the Associação Brasileira de Estatística -- President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics -- President of the Royal Statistical Society -- President of the Statistical Society of Canada -- Australian Statistician -- Chief Statistician of Canada --

C: Categories to be searched

The bot will look for potential additions to the List of statisticians in this list of categories. You may add any other categories to this list, for example from subsection D below. Use the format [[:Category:XXX]] (the colon (:) shows up twice!).

Category:Fellows of the American Statistical Association -- Category:Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute -- Category:Presidents of statistical organizations -- Category:Presidents of the American Statistical Association -- Category:Presidents of the Associação Brasileira de Estatística -- Category:Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics -- Category:Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society -- Category:Presidents of the Statistical Society of Canada

Category:Actuaries -- Category:Biostatisticians -- Category:Demographers --

Category:Winners of the Guy Medal in Bronze -- Category:Winners of the Guy Medal in Gold -- Category:Winners of the Guy Medal in Silver --

Category:Statisticians by field -- Category:Bayesian statisticians -- Category:Data miners --

Category:Members of HM Government Statistical Service -- Category:Rothamsted statisticians -- Category:Government Actuaries --

D: Potential searchable categories

Move up to subsection C any categories which the bot should search for missing articles in the List of statisticians.

E: Articles in List of statisticians not in categories

May be redirects or articles which should be removed/categorized.

Renato Mannheimer -- Khandkar Manwar Hossain -- Actuary -- Esprit Jouffret -- Winifred J. Morrison -- Greg Lawler -- Frederick B. Lindstrom -- Vijayan K Pillai -- Jean-Marie Robine -- Estate V. Khmaladze -- University of York -- Calvin Beale -- John Panaretos -- Arthur Young (writer) -- Bogoljub Kočović -- Pat Moran (statistician) -- Julian C. Stanley Jr. -- James Berger (statistician) -- Jack Kiefer (mathematician) -- Peter Laslett -- Adrian Smith (academic) -- Charles Lawrence (mathematician) -- Giovanni Villani -- Steven Ruggles -- Walter Frank Raphael Weldon -- Colin McEvedy -- David A. Freedman (statistician) -- James Crosby (British businessman) -- Karen Dunnell -- Christopher Daykin -- David F. Duncan -- Michael Teitelbaum -- Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky -- List of mathematicians -- Lloyd Shapley -- John Finlaison (Finlayson) -- Hirotsugu Akaike -- Charles Booth (philanthropist) -- Statistics -- Gwilym Jenkins -- Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao -- List of mathematical probabilists -- Robert P. Abelson -- S. Jay Olshansky -- Stanislaus S. Uyanto -- Emmanuel Todd -- William Morgan (scientist) -- Samuel Goldman -- David Foot (economist) -- Charles Stein (statistician) -- David Coleman (academic) -- S. N. Roy -- George Paine (registrar) -- Demography -- C.F. Jeff Wu -- James Vaupel -- Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett -- Eugene Grebenik -- T. Tony Cai -- Pafnuty Chebyshev -- Clive Granger -- Garrett Hardin -- Reuven Rubinstein -- Machine learning -- Alexander Ivanovich Chuprov -- Walter L. Smith -- Michel Gauquelin -- Joseph Leo Doob -- Partha Niyogi -- Anil Kumar Gain -- Aryeh Dvoretzky -- A. Ross Eckler, Jr. -- Herman Hollerith -- American Statistical Association -- Anders Lindstedt -- India -- S. S. Shrikhande -- Francis Anscombe -- A. William Flux -- David E. Bloom -- Vladimir Vapnik -- Phillip Longman -- Ronald Coifman -- James Caird (agricultural writer) -- Probability -- Thomas Robert Malthus -- University of Southampton -- William Hunter (statistician) -- Maurice Princet -- R. C. Bose -- E. A. Wrigley --

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Alphabetize this list!

There seem to have been some attempts to put this list into alphabetical order, and plenty of edits that have disregarded that. This list needs to get alphabetized. 160.94.13.146 (talk) 21:48, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Field in maths template

Why is this article presently (in the maths template) in "probability and statistics" rather then "mathematicians", (which seems better to me)? Melcombe (talk) 10:31, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

To add...

Theodore Sterling, quantified 'publication bias' as mentioned in this article in the context of the decline effect. --Dan|^(talk) 09:49, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Coverage

Given recent updates of the bot categories above, is it time to rethink the intended coverage of this list. The present version of the article heading says "Statisticians or people who made notable contributions to the theories of statistics, or to the related aspects of probability or machine learning. Also included are actuaries and demographers." Two particular points are:

this would not include contributions to the application of statistics
there exist separate lists for some of these fields; list of actuaries, list of mathematical probabilists

From a practical point of view, we could take the view that if the article for someone has been included in one of the explicitly "statistician" categories they should be in this list, but that being only in an "actuaries" or "probabilists" category (if these exist) would not lead to their inclusion here. Similarly for other overlapping fields. Any thoughts? Melcombe (talk) 13:17, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]