Born: May 13, 1918, Hove, United Kingdom.

Died: October 17, 2001, New Haven, United States of America.

Main Publications: 

• Anscombe, F. J. (1948). “The Validity of Comparative Experiments”. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General). 111 (3): 181–211
• Anscombe, F. J.; Tukey, J. W. (1963). “The Examination and Analysis of Residuals”. Technometrics. Technometrics, Vol. 5, No. 2. 5 (2): 141–160
• Anscombe, F. J. (1948). “The Transformation of Poisson, Binomial and Negative-Binomial Data”. Biometrika. 35 (3–4): 246–254
• Anscombe, F. J. (1973). “Graphs in Statistical Analysis”. The American Statistician. 27 (1): 17–21
• Anscombe, F. J. (1981). Computing in Statistical Science through APL. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Known for:

• Analysis of residuals
• Anscombe’s quartet
• Anscombe transform.