George Udny Yule
1871 - 1951
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George Udny Yule graduated in Engineering from University College London and then studied in Bonn. He worked with Karl Pearson on the statistics of regression and correlation. He took a post with an examinations board before being appointed to a Cambridge fellowship. He is best known for his book: Introduction to the Theory of Statistics.
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| Honours awarded to George Udny Yule (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| RSS Guy Medal in Gold | 1911 |
| Fellow of the Royal Society | 1921 |
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