Martin Wilk
| Martin Wilk | |
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| Chief Statistician of Canada | |
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In office 1980–1985 |
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| Preceded by | James L. Fry (interim) |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Fellegi |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
18 December 1922 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | 19 February 2013 (aged 90) Yorba Linda, California |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | |
Martin Bradbury Wilk, OC (18 December 1922 – 19 February 2013) was a Canadian statistician, academic, and the former Chief Statistician of Canada. In 1965, together with Samuel Shapiro, he developed the Shapiro–Wilk test, which can indicate whether a sample of numbers would be unusual if it came from a Gaussian distribution. With Ramanathan Gnanadesikan he developed a number of important graphical techniques for data analysis, including the Q–Q plot and P–P plot.
Born in Montréal, Québec, he received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from McGill University in 1945. From 1945 to 1950, he was a Research Chemical Engineer on the Atomic Energy Project at the National Research Council of Canada. From 1951 to 1955, he was a Research Associate, Instructor, and Assistant Professor at Iowa State University, where he received a Master of Science in Statistics in 1953 and a Ph.D. in Statistics in 1955. From 1955 to 1957, he was a Research Associate and Assistant Director of the Statistical Techniques Research Group at Princeton University. From 1959 to 1963, he was a Professor and Director of Research in Statistics at Rutgers University.
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