Samuel S. Wilks : The Statistician
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Samuel S. Wilks: The Statistician
By Kristian Wilks – Lake Shore
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The Early Years• Born on June 17th, 1906 in Little Elm, Texas– Parents: Chance C. and Bertha May Gammon Wilks– Siblings: Syrrel and William Wilks
• Lived on a 250-acre farm– Loved hunting and fishing as a child
• Built a radio at the age of 12
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College Life
• Studied industrial arts at North Texas State Teachers College as an undergraduate
• Began teaching mathematics and manual arts at a high school
College Life
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College Life
• Began studying mathematics at the University of Texas– Received his master’s degree in 1928
• Left Texas to study probability and statistics at the University of Iowa– Received his doctorate in 1931
College Life
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Life After Graduation
• Awarded A National Research Council Fellowship by Columbia University for mathematics
• Served on the National Defense Research Committee– Award President’s Certificate of Merit
Life After Graduation
Life After Graduation
• Went on to marry Gena Orr in 1931– Had a son named Stanley Neal Wilks
• Became an NRC Research Fellow working at…– University of London– University of Cambridge
• Went to teach Mathematics at Princeton
Life After Graduation
Main Contributions
• “Blue-book”• “Gray-book”• Advanced Studies in…– Tolerance Limits– Average Confidence Limits• Estimation of Confidence Regions
Major Contributions
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Main Contributions
• Editorship of the Annals• Improving weapon design and production• Helped found Institute of Mathematical
Statistics and many other institutions• Likelihood Ratio Test Advances
Major Contributions
Main Contributions
• Annals of Mathematical Statistics– Where many of his works were published
• Biometrika• Elementary Statistical Analysis – “Blue Book”• Mathematical Statistics – “Gray Book”
Important Publications
The Inevitable End
• Died in his sleep on March 7, 1964 at his Princeton home
• An award was named after him– The Stanley S. Wilks
Award• Greatly missed by the
Statistic’s community
The Inevitable End
Sources
• http://www.amstat.org/about/statisticiansinhistory/bios/wilkssamuels.pdf
• http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=samuel+stanley+wilks&lk=3
• http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~wahba/talks1/jsm.09/noether/noetheraward.pdf
Sources
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