Roger Mead

Roger Mead (1938 – 10 August 2015) was an English statistician and Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics at the University of Reading.^[1] He is known for his paper with John Nelder on the widely-used Nelder–Mead method^[2] and for his work on statistical methods for agriculture and the design of experiments.^[1][3] He was made an Honorary Life Member of the International Biometric Society in 2014.^[3]

Books

• Statistical methods in agriculture and experimental biology (with Robert Curnow). 1983 ISBN 9780412242304
• The design of experiments: statistical principles for practical applications. 1988 ISBN 9780521245128
• Statistical principles for the design of experiments: applications to real experiments (with Steven G. Gilmour and Andrew Mead). 2012 ISBN 0521862140