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Tim Holt (statistician)

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British statistician (1943–2022)

Tim Holt CB
Born	(1943-10-29)29 October 1943
Died	15 November 2022(2022-11-15) (aged 79)
Alma mater	University of Exeter
Scientific career
Institutions	Statistics Canada University of Southampton
Thesis	Some contributions to the statistical analysis of single and mixed exponential distributions (1970)

David HoltCB (29 October 1943 – 15 November 2022) was a Britishstatistician who wasProfessor Emeritus of Social Statistics at theUniversity of Southampton. He had been the president of theRoyal Statistical Society (2005–2007), the last director of theCentral Statistical Office of the United Kingdom, and the first director of theOffice for National Statistics (and ex-officioRegistrar General).

Background

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Holt took a maths degree and a PhD in statistics atExeter with thesis titledSome contributions to the statistical analysis of single and mixed exponential distributions in 1970. Throughout his career, his main interests have been survey methods, sampling theory and official statistics. He took a particular interest, through his membership of theRoyal Statistical Society, in the independence of national statistics from government.

Career

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Holt's first job was withStatistics Canada, the national statistics office of Canada, where he spent four years before joining the Department of Social Statistics at theUniversity of Southampton in 1980. He was Leverhulme Professor of Social Statistics from 1980 to 1995 and Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 1990 to 1995. From 1989 to 1991, he was also vice-president of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS).

Holt became the director of theCentral Statistical Office and Head of the Government Statistical Service in 1995 and, subsequently, the first director of theOffice for National Statistics when it was formed on 1 April 1996 from the merger of theCentral Statistical Office (CSO) and theOffice of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS). He was President of the Labour Statistics Congress (ILO) in 1997 and vice-chair of theUnited Nations Statistical Commission from 1998 to 1999.

Holt returned to the Department of Social Statistics atSouthampton in 2000, working part-time as professor of social statistics. He carried out consultancy work for theUnited Nations, theInternational Monetary Fund and theWorld Bank and was elected president of theRoyal Statistical Society in 2005.

Awards and honours

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In 1990 he was elected as aFellow of the American Statistical Association.^[1]

Holt was appointed aCompanion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the2000 New Year Honours.^[2] He was also the 2003 recipient of the Waksberg Prize in survey methodology.

Personal life and death

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Holt died on 15 November 2022, at the age of 79.^[3]

References

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^View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-11-19.
^"No. 55710".The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1999. p. 3.
^"Tim Holt obituary".The Times. 3 December 2022. Retrieved3 December 2022.(subscription required)

"Professor Tim Holt: Career", Museum of Learning. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
Tim Holt, Julian Champkin (2007)."Tim Holt",Significance, vol 4 issue 2, pp 75–76.

Preceded by Bill McLennan	Director of theCentral Statistical Office 1995–1996	Succeeded by —
Preceded by —	Director of theOffice for National Statistics 1996–2000	Succeeded by Len Cook

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21st century	2001–2003Peter Green 2003–2005Andy Grieve 2005–2007Tim Holt 2008–2009David Hand 2010–2010Bernard Silverman (resigned Feb 2010; replacedpro tem by David Hand) 2011–2012Valerie Isham 2013–2014John Pullinger 2014–2016Peter Diggle 2017–2018David Spiegelhalter 2019–Deborah Ashby
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