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Walter Federer (b. August 23, 1915) is an American statistician and is a professor emeritus of the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His research interests extend to Experimental design, Treatment design, Exploratory model selection, sum-of-squares orthogonal geometries, Covariance analysis, Statistical genetics and breeding. His innovative ideas on experimental design are now employed worldwide. Federer's work with experimental design, especially in the field of augmented designs has replaced earlier methods and is currently in use worldwide. He has developed unique approaches to the investigation of mixtures of crops in intercropping, and these approaches can be translated into other fields such as medicine and manufacturing. Although retired from teaching, Federer has continued to be involved in joint research concerning several topics such as documentation of the toolkit GENDEX, spatial analysis and exploratory model selection for spatially arranged experiments, and application of the Kalman filter for statistical analyses. He is a longtime member of the American Statistical Association.

Biography
Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming on August 23, 1915, Walter Theodore Federer grew up on a small ranch. As a young man, he was a cattle drover and he broke and trained several horses. Drawing on these experiences, he became a professional rodeo rider for six years. After this period, he went to Colorado State University and received his B.S. in agronomy in 1939. From there, he went on to receive his M.S. degree in plant breeding from Kansas State University in 1941.