1. Samuel S. Wilks: The Statistician By Kristian Wilks – Lake Shore http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=samuel+stanley+wilks&lk=3

2. The Early Years Born on June 17 th, 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 http://www.capeoldradio.com/cor_radi o.php?radio_box=25348

3. 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 http://www.webweaver.nu/clipart/education2.shtml

4. 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 http://06880danwoog.com/tag/harry-moritz/

5. 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

6. 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

7. Main Contributions “Blue-book” “Gray-book” Advanced Studies in… – Tolerance Limits – Average Confidence Limits Estimation of Confidence Regions Major Contributions http://www.clker.com/clipart-blue-book-.html

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Sources http://www.amstat.org/about/statisticiansinhi story/bios/wilkssamuels.pdf http://www.amstat.org/about/statisticiansinhi story/bios/wilkssamuels.pdf http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sam uel+stanley+wilks&lk=3 http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sam uel+stanley+wilks&lk=3 http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~wahba/talks1/jsm. 09/noether/noetheraward.pdf http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~wahba/talks1/jsm. 09/noether/noetheraward.pdf Sources

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