David John Finney CBE FRS FRSE (3 January 1917 – 12 November 2018), was a British statistician[1][2] and Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh. He was Director of the Agricultural Research Council's Unit of Statistics from 1954 to 1984 and a former President of the Royal Statistical Society and of the Biometric Society. He was a pioneer in the development of systematic monitoring of drugs for detection of adverse reactions.[3] He turned 100 in January 2017[4][5] and died on 12 November 2018 at the age of 101 following a short illness.[6][7]
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- ^ "Honorary Life Member David Finney Turns 100". The International Biometric Society (Press release). Archived from the original on 16 January 2017.
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- ^ "Remembering David Finney". www.biometricsociety.org. International Biometric Society. Retrieved 17 November 2018.