Udny Yule

George Udny Yule FRS (18 February 1871 – 26 June 1951), usually known as Udny Yule, was a British statistician, particularly known for the Yule distribution and proposing the preferential attachment model for random graphs.

This article is about the statistician. For other people with this name, see George Yule.

George Udny Yule
Born18 February 1871 (1871-02-18)
Morham, Scotland
Died26 June 1951 (1951-06-27) (aged 80)
Cambridge, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity College London
Known forYule distribution
Yule's Y
Yule's coefficient
Yule–Simpson effect
Yule–Walker equations
Preferential attachment
Simple birth process
AwardsGuy Medal (Gold, 1911)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics, Genetics
InstitutionsUniversity College London, University of Cambridge
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