Mathematician:William Henry Kruskal

Mathematician

American mathematician and statistician, best known for his part in formulating the Kruskal-Wallis Test.

The brother of Martin David Kruskal and Joseph Bernard Kruskal.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: October 10, 1919 in New York City, New York, US
• Died: April 21, 2005 in Chicago

Theorems and Definitions

• Kruskal-Wallis Test (with Wilson Allen Wallis)

Definitions of concepts named for William Henry Kruskal can be found here.

Publications

• 1968: When are Gauss-Markov and least squares estimators identical? A coordinate-free approach
• 1988: Miracles and Statistics: The Casual Assumption of Independence

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "William Henry Kruskal": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive