William Kruskal
William Henry Kruskal (born October 10, 1919 in New York City , † April 21, 2005 in Chicago ) was an American mathematician and statistician .
Life
Kruskal was born in New York City in 1919 . His mother was Lillian Rose Vorhaus Kruskal Oppenheimer , Joseph Kruskal and Martin Kruskal are known as mathematicians by his brothers . He studied mathematics at Harvard University and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1955. PhD.
Kruskal was later a professor at the University of Chicago .
From 1958 to 1961 he was editor of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics . In 1971 he was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and in 1982 of the American Statistical Association . He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1973.
Kruskal retired in 1990 as Professor Emeritus.
Fonts
- (with WA Wallis) "Use of ranks in one-criterion analysis of variance." Journal of the American Statistical Association 47 (1952): 583-621.
- (with L. Goodman) "Measures of association for cross classifications." Journal of the American Statistical Association 49 (1954): 732-764.
- (with L. Goodman) "Measures of Association for Cross Classifications. II: Further Discussion and References." Journal of the American Statistical Association 54 (1959): 123-163.
- (with L. Goodman) "Measures of association for cross classification III: Approximate Sampling Theory." Journal of the American Statistical Association 58 (1963): 310-364.
- "The coordinate-free approach to Gauss-Markov estimation, and its application to missing and extra observations." Proceedings of the Fourth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability 1 (1961): 435-451.
- "When are Gauss-Markov and least squares estimators identical? A coordinate-free approach." Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 39 (1968): 70-75.
See also
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : William Kruskal. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- The University of Chicago News Office, "William Kruskal, Statistician, 1919-2005" , press release, April 27, 2005.
- Kruskal was awarded the Samuel S. Wilks Award in 1978
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SURNAME | Kruskal, William |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kruskal, William Henry (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician and statistician |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1919 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 2005 |
Place of death | Chicago |