Colin Lingwood Mallows
Colin Lingwood Mallows | |
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| Born | 10 September 1930 Great Sampford, Essex, England |
| Died | 4 November 2023 (aged 93) |
| Nationality | English American |
| Education | University College London |
| Known for | Mallows's Cp Fowlkes–Mallows index |
| Awards | R. A. Fisher Lectureship Deming Lectureship Wilks Memorial Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University College London Bell Labs AT&T Labs Avaya |
| Doctoral advisor | Florence Nightingale David Norman Lloyd Johnson |
Colin Lingwood Mallows (10 September 1930 – 4 November 2023) was an English statistician, who worked in the United States from 1960. He was known for Mallows's Cp, a regression model diagnostic procedure, widely used in regression analysis and the Fowlkes–Mallows index, a popular clustering validation criterion.