Edmund Cecil Rhodes a statistician

Statistician

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, was born in Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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 and named after Cecil Rhodes. He went to Bradford Grammar School

Bradford Grammar School

Bradford Grammar School is a co-educational, independent school in Frizinghall, Bradford, West Yorkshire. Headmaster, Stephen Davidson is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference . The school was founded in 1548 and granted its Charter by King Charles II in 1662...

 and Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

 where he graduated as Wrangler (B-star) in 1914. In 1924 he became Reader at the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

 where he remained until he retired in 1958. He wrote for Biometrika

Biometrika

- External links :* . The Internet Archive. 2011....

 and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society

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, and Edgeworth

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth FBA was an Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s...

 called him a "pathbreaker" (see obituary by Grebenik.

Rhodes originated the Rhodes algorithm in linear programming

Linear programming

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. He worked with Arthur Bowley, and also with Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders

Alexander Carr-Saunders

Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders, KBE, FBA was an English biologist and sociologist.Carr-Saunders was born in Reigate, Surrey and educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford where he gained a 1st in zoology in 1908...

 on his study of juvenile delinquency

Juvenile delinquency

Juvenile delinquency is participation in illegal behavior by minors who fall under a statutory age limit. Most legal systems prescribe specific procedures for dealing with juveniles, such as juvenile detention centers. There are a multitude of different theories on the causes of crime, most if not...

, and he contributed to population studies and the statistical study of examinations (see his book with Sir Philip John Hartog

Philip John Hartog

Sir Philip Joseph Hartog, KBE, CIE, was a British educationist undertaking the role in England and in India.Philip Joseph Hartog was born in London on March 2, 1864, the third son of Alfonse Hartog, and the younger brother of Numa and Marcus Hartog...

 entitled An Examination of Examinations.

Papers

• Reducing Observations by the Method of Minimum Deviations, Phil. Magazine 7th Series. Pp. 974 – 992, 1930
• Young Offenders, an Enquiry Into Juvenile Delinquency, A.M. Carr-Saunders
  Alexander Carr-Saunders
  Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders, KBE, FBA was an English biologist and sociologist.Carr-Saunders was born in Reigate, Surrey and educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford where he gained a 1st in zoology in 1908...
  
   e Hermann Mannheim, 1942
• An examination of examinations : being a summary of investigations on the comparison of marks allotted to examinations scripts by independent examiners and boards of examiners, together with a section on a viva voce examination, with Sir Philip John Hartog
  Philip John Hartog
  Sir Philip Joseph Hartog, KBE, CIE, was a British educationist undertaking the role in England and in India.Philip Joseph Hartog was born in London on March 2, 1864, the third son of Alfonse Hartog, and the younger brother of Numa and Marcus Hartog...
  
  , 1936