Martin Wilk
Martin Bradbury Wilk, OC (18 December 1922 – 19 February 2013) 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 Wilk | |
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| 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 |
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