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Samuel S. Wilks

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Samuel Stanley Wilks (June 17, 1906 – March 7, 1964) was an American mathematician and academic who played an important role in the development of mathematical statistics, especially in regard to practical applications. [1]

34 relations: American Statistical Association, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Donald A. S. Fraser, Egon Pearson, Everett Franklin Lindquist, Frederick Mosteller, George W. Brown (academic), Harry C. Carver, Henry Louis Rietz, Independence (probability theory), Jerzy Neyman, John Tukey, Journal of Educational Psychology, Likelihood-ratio test, Little Elm, Texas, Mathematical statistics, Multivariate statistics, Office of Naval Research, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, Probability distribution, Ronald Fisher, SAT, Ted Harris (mathematician), Texas, Theodore Wilbur Anderson, Unit-weighted regression, University of Iowa, Walter A. Shewhart, Wilfrid Dixon, Wilks Memorial Award, Wilks's lambda distribution, Wishart distribution, World War II.

American Statistical Association

The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States.

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Annals of Mathematical Statistics

The Annals of Mathematical Statistics was a peer-reviewed statistics journal published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics from 1930 to 1972.

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Donald A. S. Fraser

Donald Alexander Stuart Fraser, O.C. (born April 29, 1925) is a Canadian statistician, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.

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Egon Pearson

Egon Sharpe Pearson, CBE FRS (11 August 1895 – 12 June 1980) was one of three children and the son of Karl Pearson and, like his father, a leading British statistician.

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Everett Franklin Lindquist

Everett Franklin Lindquist (June 4, 1901 – May 13, 1978) was a professor of education at the University of Iowa College of Education.

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Frederick Mosteller

Charles Frederick Mosteller (December 24, 1916 – July 23, 2006), usually known as Frederick Mosteller, was one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century.

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George W. Brown (academic)

George W. Brown (June 2, 1917 – June 20, 2005) was an American statistician, game theorist, and computer scientist known for his work and research in early computing machinery, game theory, mathematical logic, decision theory and administration.

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Harry C. Carver

Harry Clyde Carver (December 4, 1890 – January 30, 1977) was an American mathematician and academic, primarily associated with the University of Michigan.

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Henry Louis Rietz

Henry Louis Rietz (24 August 1875, Gilmore, Ohio – 7 December 1943, Iowa City, Iowa) was an American mathematician, actuarial scientist, and statistician, who was a leader in the development of statistical theory.

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Independence (probability theory)

In probability theory, two events are independent, statistically independent, or stochastically independent if the occurrence of one does not affect the probability of occurrence of the other.

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Jerzy Neyman

Jerzy Neyman (April 16, 1894 – August 5, 1981), born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish mathematician and statistician who spent the first part of his professional career at various institutions in Warsaw, Poland and then at University College London, and the second part at the University of California, Berkeley.

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John Tukey

John Wilder Tukey (June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American mathematician best known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot.

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Journal of Educational Psychology

The Journal of Educational Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1910 and covers educational psychology.

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Likelihood-ratio test

In statistics, a likelihood ratio test (LR test) is a statistical test used for comparing the goodness of fit of two statistical models — a null model against an alternative model.

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Little Elm, Texas

Little Elm is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States, and a part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

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Mathematical statistics

Mathematical statistics is the application of mathematics to statistics, as opposed to techniques for collecting statistical data.

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Multivariate statistics

Multivariate statistics is a subdivision of statistics encompassing the simultaneous observation and analysis of more than one outcome variable.

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Office of Naval Research

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is an organization within the United States Department of the Navy that coordinates, executes, and promotes the science and technology programs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps through schools, universities, government laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit organizations.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, that was established in its current form on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township.

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Probability distribution

In probability theory and statistics, a probability distribution is a mathematical function that provides the probabilities of occurrence of different possible outcomes in an experiment.

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Ronald Fisher

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962), who published as R. A. Fisher, was a British statistician and geneticist.

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SAT

The SAT is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States.

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Ted Harris (mathematician)

Theodore Edward "Ted" Harris (11 January 1919 – 3 November 2005) was an American mathematician known for his research on stochastic processes, including such areas as general state-space Markov chains (often now called Harris chains), the theory of branching processes and stochastic models of interacting particle systems such as the contact process.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Theodore Wilbur Anderson

Theodore Wilbur Anderson (June 5, 1918 – September 17, 2016) was an American mathematician and statistician who has specialized in the analysis of multivariate data.

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Unit-weighted regression

In statistics, unit-weighted regression is a simplified and robust version (Wainer & Thissen, 1976) of multiple regression analysis where only the intercept term is estimated.

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University of Iowa

The University of Iowa (also known as the UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a flagship public research university in Iowa City, Iowa.

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Walter A. Shewhart

Walter Andrew Shewhart (pronounced like "shoe-heart", March 18, 1891 – March 11, 1967) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical quality control and also related to the Shewhart cycle.

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Wilfrid Dixon

Wilfrid Joseph Dixon (December 13, 1915 – September 20, 2008) was an American mathematician and statistician.

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Wilks Memorial Award

The Wilks Memorial Award is awarded by the American Statistical Association to recognize outstanding contributions to statistics.

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Wilks's lambda distribution

In statistics, Wilks's lambda distribution (named for Samuel S. Wilks), is a probability distribution used in multivariate hypothesis testing, especially with regard to the likelihood-ratio test and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).

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Wishart distribution

In statistics, the Wishart distribution is a generalization to multiple dimensions of the chi-squared distribution, or, in the case of non-integer degrees of freedom, of the gamma distribution.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_S._Wilks

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