William Kruskal

William Henry Kruskal
Born(1919-10-10)October 10, 1919
New York City
DiedApril 21, 2005(2005-04-21) (aged 85)
Chicago
Alma materHarvard University, Columbia University
Known forKruskal–Wallis test
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Doctoral advisorHenry Scheffé and Howard Levene

William Henry Kruskal (/ˈkrʌskəl/; October 10, 1919 – April 21, 2005) was an American mathematician and statistician. He is best known for having formulated the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance (together with W. Allen Wallis), a widely used nonparametric statistical method.

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