| LC control no. | n 50000819 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kruskal, William H., 1919-2005 |
| Variant(s) | Kruskal, William, 1919- Kruskal, Bill, 1919-2005 |
| Birth date | 1919-10-10 |
| Death date | 2005-04-21 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Affiliation | Naval Proving Ground (Dahlgren, Va.) University of Chicago Institute of Mathematical Statistics American Statistical Association |
| Profession or occupation | Mathematicians Statisticians |
| Found in | Behavioral and Social Sciences Survey Committee. Mathematical Sciences Panel. Mathematical sciences and social sciences. 1970: title page (edited by William Kruskal) The Social sciences, their nature and uses: papers presented at the 50th anniversary of the Social Science Research Building, the University of Chicago, December 16-18, 1979, 1982: title page (William H. Kruskal, editor) International encyclopedia of statistics, 1978: title page (edited by William H. Kruskal) Measures of association for cross classification, 1979: title page (William H. Kruskal) Wikipedia, June 3, 2015 (William Kruskal; William Henry ("Bill") Kruskal was an American mathematician and statistician; he is best known for having formulated the Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance (together with W. Allen Wallis), a widely used nonparametric statistical method; Kruskal was born in New York City on October 10, 1919; Kruskal left Antioch College to attend Harvard University, receiving Bachelor's and Master's degrees in mathematics in 1940 and 1941; he pursued a Ph. D. in Mathematical Sciences at Columbia University, graduating in 1955; during the Second World War, Kruskal served at the U.S. Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren, Virginia; after brief stints working for his father and lecturing at Columbia, he joined the University of Chicago faculty as an instructor in statistics in 1950; he edited the Annals of Mathematical Statistics from 1958 to 1961, served as president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1971 and of the American Statistical Association in 1982; Kruskal retired as Professor Emeritus in 1990; he died in Chicago on April 21, 2005) |
| Associated language | eng |
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