# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-allen-wallis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:22:49.009Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/w-allen-wallis"
name: "W. Allen Wallis"
slug: "w-allen-wallis"
description: "Wilson Allen Wallis was an American economist and statistician who served as president of the University of Rochester. He is best known for the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance, which is named after him and William Kruskal."
tagline: "American economist (1912–1998)"
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birthDate: "1912-11-05"
deathDate: "1998-10-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump