William Kruskal

William Henry Kruskal ( born October 10, 1919 in New York City; † 21 April 2005 in Chicago ) was an American mathematician and statistician.

Life

Kruskal was born in 1919 in New York City. His mother was Lillian Rose Vorhaus Kruskal Oppenheimer, of his brothers are Joseph Kruskal and Martin Kruskal become known as a mathematician. He studied mathematics at Harvard University and was founded in 1955 at Columbia University for Ph.D. doctorate.

Kruskal was later a professor at the University of Chicago.

From 1958 to 1961 he was editor of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics. In 1971 he was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association in 1982.

Kruskal joined in 1990 as Professor Emeritus in retirement.

Writings

• ( with WA Wallis ) "Use of ranks in one -criterion analysis of variance. " Journal of the American Statistical Association 47 (1952 ): 583-621.
• ( with L. Goodman) " Measures of association for cross classifications. " Journal of the American Statistical Association 49 (1954 ): 732-764.
• ( with L. Goodman) " Measures of Association for Cross Classifications II. Further Discussion and References. " Journal of the American Statistical Association 54 (1959 ): 123-163.
• ( with L. Goodman) " Measures of association for cross classification III: Approximate Sampling Theory. " Journal of the American Statistical Association 58 (1963): 310-364.
• "The coordinate- free approach to Gauss-Markov estimation, and its application to missing and extra observations. " Proceedings of the Fourth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability 1 (1961 ): 435-451.