Mathematician:Donald Ransom Whitney

Mathematician

American statistician best known for the Mann-Whitney test, with Henry Berthold Mann.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 27 November 1915 in East Cleveland, Ohio, United States
• Died: 16 August 2007

Theorems and Inventions

• Mann-Whitney Test (with Henry Berthold Mann)

Definitions of concepts named for Donald Ransom Whitney can be found here.

Publications

• 1947: On a Test of Whether one of Two Random Variables is Stochastically Larger than the Other (Ann. Math. Stat. Vol. 18, no. 1: pp. 50 – 60) (with H.B. Mann)