Samuel S. Wilks

Samuel Stanley Wilks ( born June 17, 1906 in Little Elm, Texas, † March 7, 1964 Columbus, OH) was an American statistician.

Wilks grew up on a farm and studied at North Texas State Teachers College, where he was primarily interested in architecture, taught briefly at schools and studied by the way mathematics at the University of Texas with a bachelor's degree. He continued his studies at the University of Iowa, where he received his doctorate in 1931 at Henry Rietz in Statistics ( On the distributions of statistics in samples from a normal population of two variables with matched sampling of one variable ). In 1933 he was instructor at Princeton University, where he remained for the rest of his career and in 1944 became a professor and director of the newly founded Department of Mathematical Statistics. In 1958, he stood in front of the math faculty.

Since 1938 he was the editor of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics.

He is known for his contributions to multivariate statistics and regression analysis (unit -weighted regression 1938). It dealt not only with mathematical statistics, but also laid emphasis on practical applications and has been involved in the development of aptitude tests (SAT) for schools in the U.S. and dealt with quality control in the industry. During World War II he was advisor to the Office of Naval Research.

The Wilks Memorial Award of the American Statistical Association is named in his honor.

Writings

  • Elementary statistical analysis, Princeton University Press 1948
  • Mathematical Statistics, Wiley 1962
  • Mathematical Statistics, Princeton University Press 1943
  • Irwin Guttman, J. Stuart Hunter: Introductory engineering statistics, 3rd edition, Wiley 1982
  • Collected Papers, published by TW Anderson, Wiley 1967
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