W. Allen Wallis

American economist (1912-1998) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 85

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.

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January 1988 memo identifying Wallis as President Reagan's "personal representative" for policy matters during the administration's preparations for attending the 14th G7 summit in June.

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Fellow of the American Statistical Association1948

Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics1944

Wilks Memorial Award

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