George Udny Yule

George Udny Yule FSS CBE MA
Born	1871
Died	1951
Residence	50 St James’ Court, Buckingham Gate, SW 28 Great Ormond Street, WC [1909] St John's College, Cambridge [1913]
Occupation	academic statistion
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1952 deceased elected_AI 1906.11.24 societies Statistical Society Royal Society British Psychological Society Royal Statistical Society

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RAI Council 1907 Member
RAI Council 1908 Member
RAI Council 1909 Member
RAI Council 1911 Member
RAI Council 1912-13 Member
RAI Council 1913 Member
RAI Council 1915 Member
RAI Council 1916 Member
RAI Council 1917 Member

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Proposed by John Gray, seconded by W.H.R. Rivers, 1906.06.30
1952.10.09 death noted

Notes From Elsewhere

George Udny Yule FRS (18 February 1871 – 26 June 1951),[1] usually known as Udny Yule, was a British statistician, born at Beech Hill, a house in Morham near Haddington, Scotland and died in Cambridge, England. He came from an established Scottish family composed of army officers, civil servants, scholars, and administrators. His father, Sir George Udny Yule (1813–1886) was a brother of the noted orientalist Sir Henry Yule (1820–1889).

1911 gold medal from Statistical Society

Publications

External Publications

An introduction to the theory of statistics, 1911

Yule, G. U. (1896). "On the Significance of Bravais' Formulae for Regression, &c., in the Case of Skew Correlation". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (1854-1905) 60: 477–426. doi:10.1098/rspl.1896.0075. edit Yule, G. U.; Pearson, K. (1901). "On the Theory of Consistence of Logical Class-Frequencies, and Its Geometrical Representation". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 197 (287–299): 91. doi:10.1098/rsta.1901.0015. edit Yule, G. U. (1900). "On the Association of Attributes in Statistics: With Illustrations from the Material of the Childhood Society, &c". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 194 (252–261): 257–226. doi:10.1098/rsta.1900.0019. edit Yule, G. U. (1907). "On the Theory of Correlation for any Number of Variables, Treated by a New System of Notation". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 79 (529): 182–126. doi:10.1098/rspa.1907.0028. edit G. Udny Yule Introduction to the Theory of Statistics London Griffin 1911. Yule, G. U. (1927). "On a Method of Investigating Periodicities in Disturbed Series, with Special Reference to Wolfer's Sunspot Numbers". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 226 (636–646): 267–226. doi:10.1098/rsta.1927.0007. edit

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