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William Kruskal

American mathematician (1919-2005) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 85

William Henry Kruskal was an American mathematician and statistician. He is best known for having formulated the Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance, a widely used nonparametric statistical method.

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2005Died21 April 20051979Guggenheim FellowshipAward1978Wilks Memorial AwardAward1958Fellow of the American Statistical AssociationAward1956Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsAward1919Born10 October 1919

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Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship1979
Wilks Memorial Award1978
Fellow of the American Statistical Association1958
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics1956

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United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1919 to 2005 · aged 85