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Revision as of 11:10, 13 July 2009
Samuel Wilks
(* June 6th 1876 in Frankfurt, † November 12th 1944 KZ Theresienstadt)
Life
In 1932 Wilks went to England where he spent a period in Karl Pearson's department in University College, London. In 1933 he went to Cambridge where he worked with John Wishart, who had been a research assistant to both Pearson and Fisher.
He was appointed instructor of mathematics at Princeton in 1933. He was to remain there for the rest of his career, being promoted to professor of mathematical statistics in 1944.
Wilks's work was all on mathematical statistics. His early papers on multivariate analysis were his most important, one of most influential being