[2] During World War II, Plackett was requested to work for the Ministry of Supply, in SR17 which was a statistical branch.
He began to develop a methodology for applying statistical knowledge, and would pass it down to new recruits.
[2] In 1946, he would publish his first paper which was written jointly with Peter Burman in an journal called Biometrika.
[2] He was the first professor of statistics at Newcastle University and held the post until his retirement in 1983.
[2] He authored several books on statistics, including Principles of Regression Analysis (1960), The Analysis of Categorical Data (1974) and An Introduction to the Interpretation of Quantal Responses in Biology (1979, with P. S.