William John Youden (April 12, 1900 – March 31, 1971) was an Australian-born American statistician who formulated new statistical techniques in statistical analysis and in design of experiments. He developed the "Youden square", an incomplete block design developed from a 1937 paper, "Use of Incomplete Block Replications in Estimating Tobacco Mosaic Virus". He also helped to introduce the concept of restricted randomization, which he called constrained randomization.. He devised Youden's J statistic as a simple measure summarising the performance of a binary diagnostic test .
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12 April 1900 Townsville, Australia
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31 March 1971 (aged 70) Washington, D.C.
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