Kendall, Maurice George

Statistico inglese (n. Kettering 1907 - m. 1983); prof. all'univ. di Londra (1949-61). Oltre alle assai diffuse Introduction to the theory of statistics (14^a ed. 1950) e Advanced theory of statistics (I, 6^a ed., 1958; II, 4^a ed., 1962), ha scritto: Contribution to study of oscillatory time-series (1946), Rank correlation methods (1948), Exercises in theoretical statistics (1953), A dictionary of statistical terms (in collab. con W. R. Buckland, 1957), A course in multivariate analysis (1957), Geometrical probability (in collab. con P. A. Moron, 1963). Ha diretto The sources and nature of the statistics of the United Kingdom (2 voll., 1952-57).