Roger Mead (1938 – 10 August 2015) was an English statistician and Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics at the University of Reading.
[1] He is known for his paper with John Nelder on the widely-used Nelder–Mead method[2] and for his work on statistical methods for agriculture and the design of experiments.
[1][3] He was made an Honorary Life Member of the International Biometric Society in 2014.
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