Howard Levene
Howard Levene | |
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| Born | January 17, 1914 |
| Died | July 2, 2003 (aged 89) New York City, New York |
| Education | New York University Columbia University |
| Known for | Levene's test |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genetics Statistics |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Thesis | Contributions to the Theory of Non-Parametric Tests of Randomness (1953) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jacob Wolfowitz |
| Doctoral students | |
Howard Levene (January 17, 1914 – July 2, 2003)[1] was an American statistician and geneticist. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1947, and joined the faculty there shortly thereafter. He remained on the faculty at Columbia, where he served as professor of mathematical statistics and genetics, until 1982.[2][3] He is known for developing Levene's test, a modified form of the one-way analysis of variance.[4] He served as president of the American Society of Naturalists in 1976.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ "Inside the AMS" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 2008. p. 2. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
- ^ "Howard Levene". A Dictionary of Statistics.
- ^ Wallace, B. (2004-01-01). "Howard Levene Remembered". Journal of Heredity. 95 (1): 93–94. doi:10.1093/jhered/esh007. PMID 14757739.
- ^ Cramer, Duncan (2004). "Levene's Test". The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, Inc. doi:10.4135/9781412950589.n488. ISBN 9780761923633.
- ^ "Past Officers of the ASN". American Society of Naturalists. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
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