Forrest W. Young

Forrest Wesley Young (April 10, 1940 – 2006) was a professor emeritus of quantitative psychology at the University of North Carolina and former President of the Psychometric Society.^[1] He is the developer of ViSta a software for data visualization.^[2]

Forrest W. Young
Born	(1940-04-10)April 10, 1940
Died	2006
Alma mater	University of Southern California
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thesis	A multidimensional similarities analysis of twelve choice probability learning with payoffs (1967)
Doctoral advisor	Norman Cliff

Books

• Schiffman, S.S., Reynolds, M.L. & Young, F.W. (1981). Introduction to Multidimensional Scaling. New York: Academic Press.
• Young, F.W. & Sarle, W.S. (1982). Exploratory Multivariate Data Analysis. Cary, NC: SAS Institute, Inc.
• Young, F.W. & Hamer, R.M. (1987). Multidimensional Scaling: History, Theory and Applications. New York: Erlbaum Associates. (reprinted, 1994)