Richard B. McHugh

McHugh was born in Villard, Minnesota[1] and grew up in Minneapolis, MN.

He earned a bachelor of arts in statistics with a minor in mathematics, magna cum laude, in 1944 from University of Minnesota. He completed a master of arts in 1949.[2] McHugh earned a doctor of philosophy at University of Minnesota in 1954. His dissertation was titled On the scaling of psychological data by latent structure analysis.[3] His advisors were Leonid Hurwicz and Jacob Bearman.[2]

Mchugh was Assistant Professor of Statistics and Psychology at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa from 1950 until 1954 when he was appointed Associate Professor.[1] In 1956 he began working at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis as Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health; he became Professor of Biometry in 1961; and was appointed Professor and Director, Division of Biometry in 1968. [1] He served on the faculty at University of Minnesota School of Public Health for over 30 years.[4]

He was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1967.[5]

A practicing Roman Catholic, Richard McHugh was married to Rosemary McHugh, nee Jarvis, with whom he had 2 daughters and 3 sons. He was preceded in death by his wife, daughter and 10 siblings.[4]