Terence Michael Frederick Smith (18 January 1934 – 7 December 2019)Fred Smith 1934-2019 was a British statistician known for his research in survey sampling.

Fred Smith gained his first degree in 1959.

He succeeded Prof Maurice QuenouilleStatistics: THe Art of Conjecture: T M F Smith as Professor of Statistics at the University of Southampton in 1975. He received the Guy Medal in bronze from the Royal Statistical Society in 1979. In 1983 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.View/Search Fellows of the ASA , accessed 2016-10-22.

He was President of the Royal Statistical Society in 1991–1993. (Portrait of T. M. F. Smith on page 144) The Royal Statistical Society lists Smith as the 1991–1993 President in its list of presidents of the Royal Statistical Society, which available on-line: List of presidents

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(Portrait of T. M. F. Smith on page 144)

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