Stuart A. Rice (statistician)

Stuart Arthur Rice (November 21, 1889 – June 4, 1969)[1][2] was an American statistician and sociologist with a long and distinguished career in the Federal Statistical System of the United States.

[1] In his dissertation,[3] he proposed a concept to measure the degree of agreement within a voting body, which is now known as the Rice index.

[1] During the Second World War, he fostered the development of the Inter-American Statistical Institute.

[2] While spending a lot of his time on consulting work for foreign governments, he remained in his post at the Bureau of the Budget until he retired from governmental statistics in 1955.

Rice Associates (later Surveys & Research Corporation), a statistical consulting firm, and was still regularly present at scientific meetings.