Geoffrey Watson

Geoffrey Stuart Watson (3 December 1921 – 3 January 1998) was an Australian statistician.Watson developed the Durbin–Watson statistic for detecting autocorrelation with James Durbin of the London School of Economics in 1950.He used statistical methods to support the theory of continental drift.He estimated the size of the penguin population in Antarctica, and the effect of repealing the motorcycle helmet law in the United States.In 1966, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
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