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Tony Greenfield, (born 26 April 1931) is a British statistical consultant and academic. He was formerly Head of Process Computing and Statistics at the British Iron and Steel Research Association, Sheffield, and Professor of Medical Computing and Statistics at Queen's University, Belfast. Until he retired, at the age of 80, he was a visiting professor to the Industrial Statistics Research Unit of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and to the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Greenfield recently co-authored ''Design and Analyse your Experiments with Minitab'' with Andrew Metcalfe, and is currently working on ''Engineering Statistics with Matlab''. His inaugural lecture (1980) at Queen's University is still sold as a booklet. His first book, ''Research Methods for Postgraduates'' is highly regarded on both sides of the Atlantic. He has also had a strong hand in ''The Pocket Statistician'', ''Statistical Practice in Business and Industry'' and an ''Encyclopaedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability''. One of his contributions to his local community of Great Hucklow is the editing of a history of lead mining in the area: ''Lead in the Veins''. Tony is a founding member and Past President of European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, and for many years he was a prominent member of the Royal Statistical Society. He was the first editor of RSS News and of the ENBIS newsletter and magazine. In just ten years, ENBIS has grown to a membership base of around 1500 practitioners spread across more than sixty countries. Tony is a Chartered Statistician (CStat) and a Chartered Scientist (CSci). ==Early life== Tony Greenfield was born in Chapeltown, South Yorkshire on 26 April 1931 to Geoffrey James Greenfield (1900–1978) and Hilda Aynsley (1903–1976). Tony Greenfield worked in an iron mine when he left Bedford School at the age of 17. He later worked in coal mines, a brass tube factory, and in a copper mine and studied mining engineering at Imperial College London. He received the diploma in journalism from the Regent Street Polytechnic, worked on the Sunday Express and Sunday Mirror before turning to technical journalism for ten years. He was an active member of the Sheffield Junior Chamber of Commerce of which he was chairman of the Business Affairs committee and editor of The Hub, the chamber's monthly magazine. At the 1963 conference in Tel Aviv of Junior Chamber International he was acknowledged as the editor of the best junior chamber magazine in the world. He moved into the steel industry to write technical reports for Operations Research (OR) scientists. There he found satisfaction in solving production problems, studied OR, mathematics, statistics and computing leading to an external degree from University College London. He moved into steel research and became head of process computing and statistics. Much of his work was in design and analysis of experiments for which he received his PhD. When the laboratories closed he joined the medical faculty of University of Sheffield where he was statistician to a multi-centre study of cot death. He taught medical statistics to undergraduates, supported post graduates and medical staff with consultancy and co-authored one of the first interactive statistics packages to be written on Prime computers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tony Greenfield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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