Gwilym Jenkins

Statistician, Author

1932 – 1982

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Who was Gwilym Jenkins?

Gwilym Meirion Jenkins was a Welsh statistician and systems engineer, born in Gowerton, Swansea, Wales. He is most notable for his pioneering work with George Box on autoregressive moving average models, also called Box-Jenkins models, in time-series analysis.

He earned a first class honours degree in Mathematics in 1953 followed by a Ph.D. at University College London in 1956. After graduating, he married the former Margaret Bellingham and together they raised three children. His first job out of school was junior fellow at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. He followed this by a series of visiting lecturer and professor positions at Imperial College London, Stanford University, Princeton University, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, before settling in as a professor of Systems Engineering at Lancaster University in 1965. His initial work concerned discrete time domain models for Chemical Engineering applications.

While at Lancaster, he founded and became managing director of ISCOL. He remained in academia until 1974, when he left to start his own consulting company.

He served on the Research Section Committee and Council of the Royal Statistical Society in the 1960s, founded the Journal of Systems Engineering in 1969, and briefly carried out public duties with the Royal Treasury in the mid-1970s. He was elected to the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Institute of Statisticians.

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Born
Aug 12, 1932
Gowerton
Also known as
  • Gwilym Meirion Jenkins
  • G. M. Jenkins
Nationality
  • Wales
Profession
Education
  • University College London
Died
Jul 10, 1982

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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