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John Wilder Tukey (/ ˈ t uː k i /; June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot.
Jul 26, 2000 · John Tukey (1915 - 2000) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics. John Wilder Tukey. Quick Info. Born. 16 June 1915. New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. Died. 26 July 2000. Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Summary. John Tukey introduced the Fast Fourier Transform and worked in other areas of Statistics. View three larger pictures. Biography.
T U K E Y. John Wilder Tukey was renowned for research and service in academia, industry, and government. He was born June 16, 1915, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the only child of Adah M. Takerand Ralph H. Tukey. His parents had grad-uated first and second in the Bates College class of 1898.
Sep 30, 2020 · The statistician John Tukey is regarded by some as the father, or at least one of the fathers, of data science. Before Tukey, statistics meant inference (p-values, ANOVA, etc.) and models. Tukey brought to the discipline a whole new perspective: exploring the data to see what it is telling us.
Jul 28, 2000 · John Wilder Tukey, one of the most influential statisticians of the last 50 years and a wide-ranging thinker credited with inventing the word ''software,'' died on Wednesday in New Brunswick, N.J.
Aug 14, 2017 · Biography. John Wilder Tukey was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 16 June 1915, the only son of the two top 1898 graduates of Bates College. While his father taught Latin in New Bedford, Tukey was largely educated by his mother at home.
John Wilder Tukey (JWT)—chemist, topologist, educator, consultant, information scientist, researcher, statistician, data analyst, executive— died of a heart attack on July 26, 2000 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Tukey popularized exploratory data analysis. This is the practice of looking at data summaries, especially graphical summaries, before conducting any inference. It is used to verify assumptions underlying the analyses and to identify unexpected values that may affect procedures.
John Tukey. After R.A. Fisher, John Tukey was surely the most influential statistician of the twentieth century. Trained originally as a chemist and as a mathematician, Tukey contributed to almost every subfield of statistics and invented several of them.
John Wilder Tukey: Statistical Inventor, Discoverer and Revolutionary. Howard Wainer. The four articles that follow are part of a celebration of the life and work of John Wilder Tukey (1915– 2000)—a polymath whose work, though centered in statistics, spanned many arenas.
