Talk:Udny Yule

Infobox
I propose that this picture be attached within his infobox

http://www.gap-system.org/~history/BigPictures/Yule.jpeg I has an unknown date. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nealrichter (talk • contribs) 20:11, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Restructuring proposal
First, let me say that I am currently interested in Yule only in so far that he is deemed to be significant for his 1927 analysis of the sun-spot cycle.

Specifically: "This was perhaps the first time that a model with internal degrees of freedom (what we would now call a linear autoregressive model) was inferred from measurements of an external observable (the sunspot series)." Gerschenfeld 1999, p.204

I have come here from the Wikipedia article on time series which I am trying to reorganize.

I note that there are two main sections to the biography of Yule with significant overlap in detail. I propose to make some suggestions here as to how to reorganize according to the WikiProject Biography. --Михал Орела (talk) 17:19, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

New sections on Education, Writings, Assessment
Clearly text must be re-arranged and merged appropriately. The section label "Biography" will be removed. In its place I propose three new sections: one covering his education, a second covering his writings and a third section on assessment of his contribution to Statistics. I will do this immediately.--Михал Орела (talk) 18:31, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

The following text has been deleted from the main page: "A great influence in his academic life was the statistician Karl Pearson, who lured him back to London." Once the citation issue for the claim of being "lured" by Pearson has been resolved, then it can be re-inserted into the article.

The Education section has been renamed in order to accommodate the teaching practice of Yule.--Михал Орела (talk) 19:02, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Notes and references
I have added appropriate sections for (foot)notes and references in order to facilitate citations. There is just one book used for this purpose: that of Frank Yates, 1952. I do not know yet, the title, publisher and so on. This is the next major task to be done. --Михал Орела (talk) 19:22, 19 October 2008 (UTC)