Joseph Lawson Hodges

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Joseph Lawson Hodges Jr. (born April 10, 1922 in Shreveport , † March 1, 2000 in Berkeley ) was an American mathematical statistician.

Hodges grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and studied from 1938 at the University of California, Berkeley , with a bachelor's degree in 1942. Like his friend Erich Leo Lehmann, he was an operations analyst with the US Air Force in Guam and after the war during World War II another year in Washington DC (where he married in 1947) before he returned to Berkeley and received his doctorate there in 1949 with Jerzy Neyman (I. Initial Sample Size in the Stein Procedure. II. Stringency in Acceptance Sampling. Studies in optimum Statistical Procedures). He stayed in Berkeley and became a professor there. In 1991 he retired.

In 1951/52 he was in Chicago and in 1956/57 for a sabbatical year in Sweden.

The Hodges-Lehmann estimator and the Hodge Bivariate Sign Test are named after him and Erich Lehmann . In 1951 he gave the first examples of super efficient estimators (named after him and partly after Lucien Le Cam ).

He was editor of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics from 1961 to 1964 .

Fonts

  • A Bivariate Sign Test, Annals of Mathematical Statistics , Volume 26, 1955, pp. 523-527
  • with EL Lehmann: Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics , Holden-Day 1964
  • with EL Lehmann: Elements of Finite Probability , Holden-Day 1965
  • with Krech, Crutchfield: Stat Lab, an empirical approach , 1975
  • with EL Lehmann: The efficiency of some nonparametric competitors of the t-test , in Annals of Mathematical Statistics , Volume 27, 1956, pp. 324-335.
  • with EL Lehmann: Estimation of location based on ranks , in Annals of Mathematical Statistics , Volume 34, 1963, pp. 598-611.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Joseph Lawson Hodges in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Hodges, Joseph Lawson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hodges, Joseph Lawson Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American statistician
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Shreveport
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 2000
Place of death Berkeley