| Richard L. Anderson | |
| Birth Date: | April 20, 1915 |
| Birth Place: | North Liberty, Indiana, US |
| Death Place: | Lexington, Kentucky, US |
| Fields: | Econometrics |
| Workplaces: | University of Kentucky North Carolina State University |
| Alma Mater: | Iowa State College DePauw University |
| Doctoral Advisors: | )--> |
| Doctoral Students: | Geoffrey Watson |
Richard Loree Anderson (April 20, 1915 – February 19, 2003) was an American econometrician. He was a Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University from 1941 to 1966. In 1967, he took up chairmanship of the newly established Department of Statistics at the University of Kentucky, a position he held until 1979.[1] In 1951 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2] While a professor at the University of Kentucky, he consulted with a number of drug companies on clinical trials. Even before, he had been consulting several computer programming companies including IMSL, BMDP, and SAS.[3]