Samuel D. Silvey

{{Short description|British statistician}}

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Samuel David Silvey was a British statistician. Among his contributions are the Lagrange multiplier test,{{cite journal |first=S. D. |last=Silvey |title=The Lagrangian Multiplier Test |journal=Annals of Mathematical Statistics |volume=30 |issue=2 |year=1959 |pages=389–407 |jstor=2237089 |doi=10.1214/aoms/1177706259|doi-access=free }} and the use of eigenvalues of the moment matrix for the detection of multicollinearity.{{cite journal |first=S. D. |last=Silvey |title=Multicollinearity and Imprecise Estimation |journal=Journal of the Royal Statistical Society |series=Series B (Methodological) |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=539–552 |year=1969 |doi=10.1111/j.2517-6161.1969.tb00813.x }}