Glenn W. Brier

Glenn Brier (April 26, 1913 - January 2, 1998) was an American statistician, weather forecaster and academic.

Brier was born in Woodbridge, Virginia, on April 26, 1913, and died on January 2, 1998.^[1] He married Josephine Hartz and had three children: Richard Paul, Katherine and David.^[2]

Brier worked for the Office of Meteorological Research of the U.S. Weather Bureau, at the U.S. Department of Commerce, from 1939 up to the 1980s.^[3][4]

Brier is best known for creating a scoring rule to measure the accuracy of forecasts, which is known as a Brier score.^[5][6] Because of his work, the score and Brier himself are widely cited by academics related not only to weather-forecasting, but by researchers in several other fields of forecasting, decision science, and various disciplines.^{[7] [8]}