Richard Loree Anderson (April 20, 1915 – February 19, 2003) was an American econometrician.
He was a Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University from 1941 to 1966.
In 1967, he took up chairmanship of the newly established Department of Statistics at the University of Kentucky, a position he held until 1979.
[1] In 1951 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
[2] While a professor at the University of Kentucky, he consulted with a number of drug companies on clinical trials.
Even before, he had been consulting several computer programming companies including IMSL, BMDP, and SAS.
[3] Anderson was good friends with William Gemmell Cochran before the latter died in 1980.
[4] In 1942, Anderson found the probability density function of the serial correlation coefficient
[5] Anderson recalled that he preliminarily calculated this based on characteristic functions and presented it in the winter of 1940, but he thought it would be intractable for N > 9.
[4] In 1962, Anderson, W. T. Wells, and John W. Cell calculated the probability density function for the product of two noncentral chi-squared variables using the Mellin transform.
[6] In 1980, Anderson, Walter W. Stroup, and James W. Evans devised an algorithm to compute maximum likelihood estimates for the completely random balanced incomplete block design.
[7] In 1985, Anderson, Sastry G. Pantula, and Larry A. Nelson, proposed an estimator for the covariance matrix for a mixed linear model, where the model describes an experiment conducted over several sites for several years.
[8] In 1996, Anderson, Pao-Sheng Shen, and P. L. Cornelius used simulations to study nested mating designs.