Martin Wilk | |
|---|---|
| Chief Statistician of Canada | |
| In office 1980–1985 | |
| Preceded by | James L. Fry (interim) |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Fellegi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 December 1922 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | 19 February 2013 (aged 90) Yorba Linda, California |
| Alma mater | |
Martin Bradbury Wilk, OC (18 December 1922 – 19 February 2013)[1][2] was a Canadian statistician, academic, and the former chief statistician of Canada. In 1965, together with Samuel Shapiro, he developed the Shapiro–Wilk test, which can indicate whether a sample of numbers would be unusual if it came from a Gaussian distribution. With Ramanathan Gnanadesikan he developed a number of important graphical techniques for data analysis, including the Q–Q plot and P–P plot.
- ^ "Martin B. Wilk". The Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. February 23, 2013. p. 59. Retrieved November 5, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Lennick, Michael (10 April 2013). "Martin Wilk remembered as 'the best statistician in Canada's history'". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
