Samuel Stanley Wilks

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Samuel Stanley Wilks (born June 17, 1906 in Little Elm , Texas , † March 7, 1964 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was an American statistician .

Wilks grew up on a farm and studied at North Texas State Teachers College , where he was primarily interested in architecture, briefly taught in schools and studied mathematics at the University of Texas with a bachelor's degree. He continued his studies at the University of Iowa , where he received his doctorate in statistics under Henry Rietz (1875-1943) in 1931 ( On the distributions of statistics in samples from a normal population of two variables with matched sampling of one variable ).

In 1933 he became an instructor at Princeton University , where he stayed for the remainder of his career, and in 1944 became a professor and director of the newly formed Mathematical Statistics Department. In 1958 he was in charge of the mathematics faculty. In 1963 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Since 1938 he was editor of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics .

He is known for contributions to multivariate statistics and regression analysis (Unit-weighted regression 1938). In addition to studying mathematical statistics, he emphasized practical applications and was involved in the development of proficiency tests ( SAT ) for schools in the United States and was involved in quality control in the industry. During World War II he was an advisor to the Office of Naval Research .

The Wilks Memorial Award of the American Statistical Association is named in his honor.

Fonts

  • Elementary statistical analysis, Princeton University Press 1948
  • Mathematical Statistics, Wiley 1962
  • Mathematical Statistics, Princeton University Press 1943
  • with Irwin Guttman , J. Stuart Hunter : Introductory engineering statistics, 3rd edition, Wiley 1982
  • Collected Papers, edited by TW Anderson, Wiley 1967

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Wilks, Samuel Stanley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American statistician
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Little Elm , Texas
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1964
Place of death Princeton , New Jersey