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 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.

(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.

personal data
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