Wilks

Samuel Stanley Wilks

Born: 17 June 1906 in Little Elm, Texas, USA
Died: 7 March 1964 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA

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Samuel Wilks was a member of the mathematics department at Princeton.

He worked on mathematical statistics. His early papers on multivariate analysis were his most important.

One of his most important papers was Certain generalizations in the analysis of variance .

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. T W Anderson, Samuel Stanley Wilks, Annals of Mathematical Statistics 36 (1965), 1-23.
  3. Memorial to Samuel S Wilks, Journal of the American Statistical Association 60 (1965), 938-966. 
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