# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-h-simpson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:03:07.163Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-h-simpson"
name: "Edward H. Simpson"
slug: "edward-h-simpson"
description: "Edward Hugh Simpson CB was a British codebreaker, statistician and civil servant. He was best known for having described Simpson's paradox along with Udny Yule."
tagline: "British statistician and civil servant (1922–2019)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Edward_H._Simpson.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1922-12-10"
deathDate: "2019-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.86
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.211232
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "愛德華·H·辛普森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ادوارد ه. سيمبسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hugh_Simpson"
    title: "Edward Hugh Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_H._Simpson"
    title: "Edward H. Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Simpson"
    title: "Edward Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%93%D7%95%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%93_%D7%99%D7%95_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "אדוארד יו סימפסון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Simpson"
    title: "Edward Simpson"
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    title: "Edward H. Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1292590"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump