William Kruskal
William Kruskal · Science & Medicine
Statistics; the Kruskal-Wallis test
1919, New York City, United States — 2005, Chicago, Illinois, United States
United States
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William Henry Kruskal was an American statistician who, with W. Allen Wallis, devised the Kruskal-Wallis test, a widely used nonparametric method for comparing several groups without assuming a normal distribution. He was Jewish, born into a Jewish family, and was a longtime professor at the University of Chicago; his brothers Martin and Joseph were also noted mathematicians.
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Statistics; the Kruskal-Wallis test
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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