John Tukey
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 24 years ago |
| Date of birth | June 16,1915 |
| Zodiac sign | Gemini |
| Born | New Bedford |
| Massachusetts | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | July 26,2000 |
| Died | New Brunswick |
| New Jersey | |
| United States | |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Louise Rapp |
| Known for | Exploratory data analysis |
| Projection pursuit | |
| Box plot | |
| Job | Statistician |
| Education | Princeton University |
| Brown University | |
| Books | Graphical Analysis of Multi-Response Data |
| The collected works of John W. Tukey | |
| Exploratory Data Analysis | |
| The Measurement of Power Spectra, from the Point of View of Communications Engineering | |
| Convergence and uniformity in topology | |
| Awards | IEEE Medal of Honor |
| National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science | |
| Wilks Memorial Award | |
| R. A. Fisher Lectureship | |
| Shewhart Medal | |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | |
| Doctor student | Kai Lai Chung |
| Thesi | On Denumerability in Topology |
| Parents | Adah M. Tukey |
| Ralph H. Tukey | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 542338 |
John Tukey Life story
John Wilder Tukey was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform algorithm and box plot. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, the Tukey test of additivity, and the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma all bear his name.
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