Martin Wilk
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Education and career
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a bachelor of engineering degree in chemical engineering from McGill University in 1945. From 1945 to 1950, he was a research chemical engineer on the Atomic Energy Project at the National Research Council of Canada. From 1951 to 1955, he was a research associate, instructor, and assistant professor at Iowa State University, where he received a Master of Science in statistics in 1953 and a Ph.D. in statistics in 1955 under the supervision of Oscar Kempthorne. From 1955 to 1957, he was a research associate and assistant director of the Statistical Techniques Research Group at Princeton University. From 1959 to 1963, he was a professor and director of research in statistics at Rutgers University.[1]
In 1956, he joined Bell Telephone Laboratories and in 1970 joined American Telephone and Telegraph Company. From 1976 to 1980, he was the assistant vice president-director of corporate planning. From 1980 to 1985, he was the chief statistician of Canada.[1]
In 1981, he was appointed an adjunct professor of statistics at Carleton University.
In 1962 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[3] In 1999, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for his "insightful guidance on important matters related to our country's national statistical system".[1][4]
See also
- Wilk – people with the surname Wilk
References
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- A conversation with Martin Bradbury Wilk", C. Genest & G. Brackstone, Statistical Science, Vol. 25, No. 2. (May, 2010), pp. 258–272.
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- 1922 births
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- Officers of the Order of Canada
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- Presidents of the Statistical Society of Canada
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