T. M. F. Smith

Terence Michael Frederick Smith (18 January 1934 – 7 December 2019)^[1][2] was a British statistician known for his research in survey sampling.

Fred Smith gained his first degree in 1959.

He succeeded Prof Maurice Quenouille^[3] as Professor of Statistics at the University of Southampton in 1975.^[4] He received the Guy Medal in bronze from the Royal Statistical Society in 1979. In 1983 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.^[5]

He was President of the Royal Statistical Society in 1991–1993.^[6]

Selected bibliography

• Smith, T. M. F. (1984). "Present Position and Potential Developments: Some Personal Views: Sample surveys". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. 147 (2): 208–221. doi:10.2307/2981677. JSTOR 2981677.
• Smith, T. M. F. (1993). "Populations and Selection: Limitations of Statistics (Presidential address)". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. 156 (2): 144–166. doi:10.2307/2982726. JSTOR 2982726. (Portrait of T. M. F. Smith on page 144)
• Smith, T. M. F. (2001). "Biometrika centenary: Sample surveys". Biometrika. 88 (1): 167–243. doi:10.1093/biomet/88.1.167.
• Smith, T. M. F. (2001). "Biometrika centenary: Sample surveys". In D. M. Titterington and D. R. Cox (ed.). Biometrika: One Hundred Years. Oxford University Press. pp. 165–194. ISBN 0-19-850993-6.
• Smith, T. M. F.; Staetsky, L. (2007). "The teaching of statistics in UK universities". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. 170 (3): 581–622. doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00482.x. MR 2380589.