American statisticians

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Kai Lai Chung (traditional Chinese: 鍾開萊; simplified Chinese: 钟开莱; September 19, 1917 – June 2, 2009) was a Chinese American mathematician known for his significant contributions to modern probability theory.

Lawrence David Brown (born 16 December 1940) is Miers Busch Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Lawrence Alan Shepp (September 9, 1936 Brooklyn, NY – April 23, 2013, Tucson, AZ) was an American mathematician, specializing in statistics and computational tomography.

Marguerite Straus Frank (born September 8, 1927), is an American-French mathematician, and pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming.

Drew Cannon (born April 21, 1990) is an American statistician and sports writer who currently works on the Boston Celtics staff.

Wilson Allen Wallis (November 5, 1912 – October 12, 1998) was an American economist and statistician best known for serving as president of the University of Rochester.

Aryness Joy Wickens (January 5, 1901 – February 2, 1991) was an American economist and statistician who served as acting commissioner of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and as president of the American Statistical Association, and who helped develop the United States Consumer Price Index.

Margaret Loyd Jarman "Marney" Hagood (1907–1963) was an American sociologist and demographer who "helped steer sociology away from the armchair and toward the calculator".

Rosedith Sitgreaves Bowker (1915 – February 1, 1992) was an American statistician who taught at Columbia University and Stanford University.

Lynn Elizabeth Eberly is a professor of biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, whose research involves longitudinal studies, medical imaging, and other forms of correlated data.

Wassily Hoeffding (June 12, 1914 – February 28, 1991) was a Finnish statistician and probabilist.

Joseph Adna Hill (1860–1938) was an American statistician, born at Stewartstown, New Hampshire; he graduated from Harvard University in 1885 and from the University of Halle (Ph.D.) in 1892.

Joseph Lawson Hodges, Jr.

Joseph L. Fleiss (November 13, 1937 – June 12, 2003) was a professor of biostatistics at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where he also served as head of the Division of Biostatistics from 1975 to 1992.

Howard Wainer (born 1943) is an American statistician, past Principal Research Scientist at the Educational Testing Service, adjunct Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and author, known for his contributions in the fields of statistics, psychometrics, and statistical graphics.

Harold Thayer Davis (5 October 1892, Beatrice, Nebraska – 14 November 1974, Bloomington, Indiana) was a mathematician, statistician, and econometrician, known for the Davis distribution.

Gertrude Mary Cox (January 13, 1900 – October 17, 1978) was an influential American statistician and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University.

Grace Wahba (born August 3, 1934) is the I.

Ken Pomeroy is the creator of a popular college basketball website and statistical archive, kenpom.

Kenneth Massey is an American sports statistician known for his development of a methodology for ranking and rating sports teams in a variety of sports.

Leonard Porter Ayres (September 15, 1879 – October 29, 1946) was an American educator, soldier, and statistician.

Howard Raiffa (/ˈreɪfə/; January 24, 1924 – July 8, 2016) was an American academic who was the Frank P.

Jacob Cohen (1923 – January 20, 1998) was a United States statistician and psychologist best known for his work on statistical power and effect size, which helped to lay foundations for current statistical meta-analysis and the methods of estimation statistics.

Thomas M. Cover [ˈkoʊvər] (August 7, 1938 – March 26, 2012) was an information theorist and professor jointly in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University.

Peter M. Bentler is an American professor of psychology and statistics.

Ralph Dennis Cook (born June 20, 1944) is an American statistician, mostly known for Cook's distance and the Cook–Weisberg test.

James Hutchinson Ware (October 27, 1941 – April 26, 2016) was a biostatician and the Frederick Mosteller Professor of Biostatistics and Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Science at the Harvard T.

Willard Long Thorp (1899–1992) was an economist and academic who served three US Presidents, Franklin D.

David Rothman (August 9, 1935 – c. June 12, 2004) was an American statistician, public policy advisor, and Bowl Championship Series computer rankings author.

Kenneth A. Bollen (born 1951) is the Henry Rudolf Immerwahr Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Stanley Wasserman (born August 29, 1951) is an American statistician and Rudy Professor of Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington, known for his work on social network analysis, mathematical sociology, network science and multidimensional network.

David L. Banks is an American statistician.

Bruce Cooil (born 1953) is The Dean Samuel B.

Andrew Gelman (born February 11, 1965) is an American statistician, professor of statistics and political science, and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University.

Darrell Huff (July 15, 1913 – June 27, 2001) was an American writer, and is best known as the author of How to Lie with Statistics (1954), the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth century.

Otis Dudley Duncan (December 2, 1921 in Nocona, Texas – November 16, 2004, in Santa Barbara, California) was "the most important quantitative sociologist in the world in the latter half of the 20th century", according to sociologist Leo Goodman.

Quinn Michael McNemar (February 20, 1901 – July 3, 1986) was an American psychologist and statistician.

Stephen Elliott Fienberg (born November 27, 1942) is the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department, Heinz College, and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University.

Lynne Billard is an American statistician and professor at the University of Georgia, known for her statistics research, leadership, and advocacy for women in science.

Joseph Michael Hilbe (born December 30, 1944) is an American statistician and philosopher, founding President of the International Astrostatistics Association(IAA) and one of the most prolific authors of books on statistical modeling in the early twenty-first century.

Geoffrey Seddon Shepherd (1898 – 1984) was an American statistician and econometrician.

Robert Good­ell Brown (1923–2013) was renowned in field of forecasting, specifically with major contributions of work regarding exponential smoothing.

Gábor J. Székely (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈseːkɛj], born February 4, 1947 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-American statistician/mathematician best known for introducing E-statistics or energy statistics [see E-statistics or Package energy in R (programming language)], e.

Peter Björn Nemenyi (April 14, 1927 – May 20, 2002) was an American mathematician, who worked in statistics.

Willford Isbell King (June 2, 1880 – October 17, 1962) was an American statistician, economist, and chairman of the Committee for Constitutional Government, Inc.

William L. Sanders is an American statistician, a senior research fellow with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Yuan-Shih Chow (Chinese: 周元燊, Pinyin: Zhōu Yuánshēn) (1924-), also known as Y.

R. Barker Bausell (born 1942) is an American biostatistician and retired professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where, from approximately 1999 to 2004, he was the director of their center for studying complementary and alternative medicine.

Clifford C. Clogg (October 16, 1949 – May 7, 1995) was an American sociologist, demographer, and statistician.

Samuel Sanford Shapiro (born July 13, 1930) is an American statistician and engineer.

Meyer Dwass (April 9, 1923 – July 15, 1996) was an American mathematical statistician known for his contributions to applied probability.

Samuel Stanley Wilks (June 17, 1906 – March 7, 1964) was an American mathematician and academic who played an important role in the development of mathematical statistics, especially in regard to practical applications.

Pranab Kumar Sen (born November 7, 1937 in Calcutta, India) is a statistician, a professor of statistics and the Cary C.

Benjamin Drake Wright (March 30, 1926 – October 25, 2015) was an American psychometrician.

Roger Jean-Baptiste Robert Wets (born February 1937) is a "pioneer" in stochastic programming and a leader in variational analysis who publishes as Roger J-B Wets.

Ronald L. Iman is an American statistician, currently president of Southwest Technology Consultants in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Royal Meeker (February 23, 1873 – August 16, 1953) was an American economist, born at Quaker Lake, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr.

Michael N. Katehakis (Greek: Μιχαήλ Ν. Κατεχάκης; born 1952) is a Professor of Management Science at Rutgers University.

John H. Thompson (born 1951) is an American statistician and the Director of the United States Census Bureau.

Martin Reuben Gainsbrugh (January 29, 1907 – April 1977) was an American economist, practicing statistician, author, and educator, He was Vice-President and Chief Economist of The Conference Board, Adjunct Professor at the New York University, and president of the American Statistical Association in 1961.

Richard D. "Dick" Goddard (born February 24, 1931) is an American television meteorologist, author, cartoonist, and animal activist.

Donald Jay Geman (born September 20, 1943) is an American applied mathematician and a leading researcher in the field of machine learning and pattern recognition.

Donald Lee Beggs was the President of Wichita State University from 1999 until 2012 when he was replaced by John W.

Donald J. Wheeler is an American author, statistician and expert in quality control.

Dublin was born in Kovno (Kaunas is the Lithuanian name for Kovno), Lithuania.

Trevor John Hastie (born 27 June 1953) is an American statistician and computer scientist.

Albert Ross Eckler (May 22, 1901 – March 14, 1991) served as Deputy Director of the United States Census Bureau from 1949 to 1965, and its Director from 1965 until 1969.

Carl Neracher Morris is a professor in the Statistics Department of Harvard University and spent several years as a researcher for the RAND Corporation working on the RAND Health Insurance Experiment.

David Victor Hinkley is a statistician known for his research in statistical models and inference and for his graduate-level books.

Harry V. Roberts (1923–2004), American statistician, was a distinguished teacher and a pioneer in looking at the applications of Bayesian statistics to business decision making and in Total Quality Management.

Horace G. Wadlin (October 2, 1851 – 1925), of Reading, Massachusetts, was an American statistician, economist, librarian, and architect.

Howard B. Myers (February 13, 1901 – March 9, 1956) was an American statistician and economist who held executive posts with several agencies during the New Deal.

Chester Ittner Bliss was primarily a biologist, who is best known for his contributions to statistics.

Jefferson “Jeff” Gill (born December 22, 1960) is a Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St.

Jessica Utts (born 1952) is a parapsychologist and statistics professor at the University of California, Irvine.