What is D. J. Finney?
'''David John Finney''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRS|FRSE}} (3 January 1917 – 12 November 2018), was a British statistician<ref>[http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/60/3/271.full The Royal Society]</ref> and [[Emeritus|Professor Emeritus]] of Statistics at the [[University of Edinburgh]]. He was born in [[Latchford]], [[Warrington]]. He was Director of the [[Agricultural Research Council]]'s Unit of Statistics from 1954 to 1984 and a former [[President of the Royal Statistical Society]] and of the [[Biometric Society]]. He was known for the development of systematic monitoring of drugs for detection of [[adverse reaction]]s.<ref>{{Google books |id=s90MD22wtA4C |page=499 |title=The International Who's Who 1996–97 }}</ref> Finney [[centenarian|turned 100]] in January 2017<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.biometricsociety.org/2017/01/david-finney-announcement/ |title=Honorary Life Member David Finney Turns 100 |access-date=2018-11-19 |archive-date=2018-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117193020/http://www.biometricsociety.org/2017/01/david-finney-announcement/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2017.01007.x/full David Finney celebrates 100th birthday by McDonnell, S. ''Significance'' April 2017]</ref> and died on 12 November 2018 at the age of 101 following a short illness.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/4000-david-finney-1917-2018|publisher=[[Royal Statistical Society]]|date=15 November 2018|title=David Finney 1917-2018|website=StatsLife|access-date=19 November 2018|archive-date=17 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117063223/https://www.statslife.org.uk/news/4000-david-finney-1917-2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| access-date=2018-11-17| publisher=[[ International Biometric Society]]| title=Remembering David Finney| url=https://www.biometricsociety.org/2018/11/remembering-david-finney/| website=www.biometricsociety.org| archive-date=2018-11-18| archive-url=https://web.ar