Oscar Kempthorne
| Oscar Kempthorne | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 31, 1919 St. Tudy, Cornwall |
| Died | November 15, 2000 (aged 81) |
| Residence | Ames, Iowa, United States |
| Fields |
Statistics Genetics Philosophy of science |
| Institutions |
Rothamsted Experimental Station Iowa State University |
| Alma mater | Clare College at Cambridge University |
| Academic advisors | Joseph Oscar Irwin |
| Doctoral students | Sidney Addelman John Aleong Virgil Anderson John Leroy Folks Franklin Graybill Charles Roy Henderson Klaus Heinrich Hinkelmann Thomas Neil Throckmorton Robert White Martin Wilk George Zyskind |
| Other notable students | Walter Federer |
| Known for |
Randomization analysis of randomized experiments "Iowa school" of analysis of variance Design of experiments Genetics |
| Influences |
Ronald A. Fisher Frank Yates Debabrata Basu |
| Influenced |
Debabrata Basu Luis A. Escobar |
| Notable awards | President of the International Biometric Society 1961 President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1984-5 Fellow of the American Statistical Association Fellow of the AAAS Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society |
Oscar Kempthorne (January 31, 1919 – November 15, 2000) was a statistician and geneticist known for his research on randomization-analysis and the design of experiments, which had wide influence on research in agriculture, genetics, and other areas of science. Born in St Tudy, Cornwall and educated in England, Kempthorne moved to the United States, where he was for many decades a professor at Iowa State University.
Kempthorne developed a randomization-based approach to the statistical analysis of randomized experiments, which was expounded in pioneering textbooks and articles. Kempthorne's insistence on randomization followed the early writings of Ronald Fisher, especially on randomized experiments.
Kempthorne is the founder of the "Iowa school" of experimental design and analysis of variance. Kempthorne and many of his former doctoral students have often emphasized the use of the randomization distribution under the null hypothesis. Kempthorne was skeptical of "statistical models" (of populations), when such models are proposed by statisticians rather than created using objective randomization procedures.
Kempthorne's randomization-analysis has influenced the causal model of Donald Rubin; in turn, Rubin's randomization-based analysis and his work with Rosenbaum on propensity score matching influenced Kempthorne's analysis of covariance.
Oscar Kempthorne was skeptical towards (and often critical of) model-based inference, particularly two influential alternatives: Kempthorne was skeptical of, first, neo-Fisherian statistics, which is inspired by the later writings of Ronald A. Fisher and by the contemporary writings of David R. Cox and John Nelder; neo-Fisherian statistics emphasizes likelihood functions of parameters.
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