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Martin Wilk

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Canadian statistician

CanadaLived 1922 to 2013 · aged 90
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Martin Bradbury Wilk, was a Canadian statistician, academic, and the former chief statistician of Canada. In 1965, together with Samuel Shapiro, he developed the Shapiro-Wilk test, which can indicate whether a sample of numbers would be unusual if it came from a Gaussian distribution.

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1967Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Officer of the Order of Canada
Fellow of the American Statistical Association

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Martin Bradbury Wilk, was a Canadian statistician, academic, and the former chief statistician of Canada. In 1965, together with Samuel Shapiro, he developed the Shapiro-Wilk test, which can indicate whether a sample of numbers would be unusual if it came from a Gaussian distribution. With Ramanathan Gnanadesikan he developed a number of important graphical techniques for data analysis, including the Q-Q plot and P-P plot.

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Lived 1922 to 2013 · aged 90
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