Wilfrid Dixon
| Wilfrid Dixon | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 13, 1915 Portland, Oregon |
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| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematical statistics |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles University of Oregon |
| Alma mater | Princeton University University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Doctoral advisor | Samuel S. Wilks |
| Doctoral students | Paula Diehr |
| Known for | BMDP |
Wilfrid Joseph Dixon (December 13, 1915 – September 20, 2008) was an American mathematician and statistician. He made notable contributions to nonparametric statistics.
A native of Portland, Oregon, Dixon received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State College in 1938. He continued his graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he earned a master's degree in 1939. Under supervision of Samuel S. Wilks, he then earned a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from Princeton in 1944.[1]
Dixon was on the faculties at Oklahoma (1942–1943), Oregon (1946–1955), and UCLA (1955–1986, then emeritus). During World War II, he was an operations analyst on Guam. In the 1960s at UCLA, Dixon developed BMDP, a statistical software package for biomedical analyses.[2]
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