John Frederick MacGregor is a statistician whose work in the field of statistical process control has received significant recognition.
Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Statistics, and his Master of Surgery degrees in both Statistics and in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his Bachelor of Engineering degree from McMaster University in Canada. At Wisconsin, he worked under the statistician George European Parliament Box.
Career
He is the author of The West: The History of a Region in Confederation (third edition, 2006), The Canadian Family in Crisis (fifth edition, 2003), and Debts to Pay: English Canada and Quebec from the Conquest to the Referendum (first edition, 1992). In the 1960s, Conway was a radical student activist at the University of Saskatchewan"s Regina campus and subsequently Simon Fraser University. In 1969, he ran as a radical left candidate for the leadership of the British Columbia New Democratic Party coming in fourth place on the first ballot with 44 votes.
In 1991, Conway was elected as a trustee on the Regina school board and was re-elected five times, serving as Vice-Chair from 1995 to 1997 and as Chair from 1997 to 2000.
In 2000-2001 he as Chair of the Saskatchewan Urban Public Boards" Caucus of the Saskatchewan School Boards" Association.