Udny Yule

George Udny Yule (February 18, 1871 – June 26, 1951) was a Scottish statistician. Yule made important contributions to the theory and practice of correlation, regression, and association, as well as to time series analysis. The Yule distribution, a discrete power law, is named after him.

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George Udny Yule, or Udny Yule, as he was usually called, was born in Scotland on February 18, 1871 into a family of administrators and scholars. His uncle was the noted orientalist, Sir Henry Yule. Udny Yule was educated at Winchester College and at University College London where he read engineering. After a year in Bonn doing research in experimental physics under Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, Yule returned to University College in 1893 to work as a demonstrator for Karl Pearson, one of his former teachers. Pearson was beginning to work in statistics and Yule followed him into this new field. Yule progressed to an assistant professorship but he left in 1899 to a better-paid position as secretary to an examination board. He continued to publish articles and also a very influential textbook, Introduction to the Theory of Statistics (1911). In 1912 Yule moved to Cambridge University to a new created Lectureship in Statistics and he remained in Cambridge for the rest of his life. During the First World War Yule worked for the army and then for the Ministry of Food. A heart attack in 1931 left him a semi-invalid and led to his early retirement. His flow of publications almost ceased but, in the 1940s he found new interests, one of which led to a book, The Statistical Study of Literary Vocabulary. Udny Yule died in Cambridge on June 26, 1951.

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