F.X. Schumacher (March 14, 1892 – June 3, 1967) was a prominent forest biometrician. He served on the

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faculty at The University of California before being called to work as chief of the section forest measurements, U.S. Forest Service. His interest in statistics led him to an affiliation with

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, and Schumacher led early advances to adopt statistical methods in forest inventories and silvicultural research. He joined the faculty of the Duke Graduate School of Forestry as one of its original seven faculty members. He co-authored textbooks on forest mensuration and sampling with other notable forest biometricians Donald Bruce and Roy A. Chapman. He was the first to apply the equation form ''Y = e^a+b/X'', widely known as the Schumacher equation, to timber growth and yield modeling. In 1957 he was elected as a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

. Schumacher was named a Fellow,

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in 1959 and was awarded an honorary doctorate from North Carolina State University the same year.NC State University, honorary degrees conferred. 1917-present
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schumacher, Francis X. Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United States) American foresters 1892 births 1967 deaths Forestry researchers University of Michigan alumni Fellows of the American Statistical Association People from Dayton, Ohio