Achievements and Honours
In his obituary for the American Statistical Association, Deming wrote of Shewhart:
As a man, he was gentle, genteel, never ruffled, never off his dignity. He knew disappointment and frustration, through failure of many writers in mathematical statistics to understand his point of view.
He was founding editor of the Wiley Series in Mathematical Statistics, a role that he maintained for twenty years, always championing freedom of speech and confident to publish views at variance with his own.
His honours included:
- Founding member, fellow and president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics;
- Founding member, first honorary member and first Shewhart Medalist of the American Society for Quality;
- Fellow and President of the American Statistical Association;
- Fellow of the International Statistical Institute;
- Honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society;
- Holley medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers;
- Honorary Doctor of Science, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta.
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