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    Francis Tukey (1814 - November 27, 1867) was the City Marshal of Boston, Massachusetts, from 1846 to 1852 and a member of the California State Assembly...
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  • John Tukey (1915–2000) was an American mathematician. Tukey may also refer to: Francis Tukey (1814–1867), American politician Tukey Island, one of the...
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    seemingly dysfunctional police department, headed up by City Marshal, Francis Tukey. Bigelow pledged to scrutinize the department and provide oversight...
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    watch was nearly twice as high as the wages of laborers. City Marshal Francis Tukey resisted mayor John Prescott Bigelow's appointment of McGinniskin, expressing...
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    crystal of Helium-3. Garwin gave Tukey's idea to Cooley (both worked at IBM's Watson labs) for implementation. Cooley and Tukey published the paper in a relatively...
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  • letters mailed from Boston proposed various scenarios. City Marshal Francis Tukey had the Charles River and Boston Harbor dragged for a body, and sent...
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  • before the data is seen. Exploratory data analysis has been promoted by John Tukey since 1970 to encourage statisticians to explore the data, and possibly...
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  • watch was nearly twice as high as the wages of laborers. City Marshal Francis Tukey resisted mayor John Prescott Bigelow's appointment of McGinniskin, expressing...
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  • Thomas B. Curtis and James F. Baldwin, water commissioners; city marshal Francis Tukey, and members of the city council and government.") Wight travelled to...
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  • well-known statistician, John Tukey of Princeton University; their wives were sisters. Saxon, Wolfgang (25 October 2001). "Francis John Anscombe, 83, Mathematician...
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  • 1849. On November 30, 1849, a group of men, including City Marshal Francis Tukey, Henry Jacob Bigelow, Parkman Blake, Robert G. Shaw, and members of...
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    extensive search by Derastus Clapp and other police officers from Francis Tukey's newly formed Boston police force, Parkman's dismembered and partly...
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  • Delight by Henry S. Warren, Jr. Exploratory Data Analysis (see) by John W. Tukey, based on a course taught at Princeton. The Mythical Man-Month by Fred P...
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  • have Blake return to fill the post and oust their City Marshal, Francis Tukey, but Tukey kept the position. On November 23, 1849, after Blake's uncle, George...
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  • rejected by others. Other classifications include those by Mosteller and Tukey, and by Chrisman. Stevens proposed his typology in a 1946 Science article...
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    Death. An English translation of the French manuscript was published by Ann Tukey Harrison in 1994. John Lydgate's Dance of Death is a Middle English poem...
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    implemented. Other categorizations have been proposed. For example, Mosteller and Tukey (1977) distinguished grades, ranks, counted fractions, counts, amounts,...
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  • Dakota State University Frederick Mosteller and John W. Tukey: A Conversation moderated by Francis J. Anscombe, Statistical Science Vol. 3, No. 1 (Feb. 1988)...
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    proposed the idea of using the medians of two subsamples rather the means. Tukey combined these ideas and recommended dividing the sample into three equal...
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    closed-form expression can be found (others include the uniform, the Weibull, the Tukey lambda (which includes the logistic) and the log-logistic). When the cdf...
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    Cohen 1968—Jerzy Neyman 1969—William Feller 1970—Richard Brauer 1973—John Tukey 1974—Kurt Gödel 1975—John Backus, Shiing-Shen Chern, George Dantzig 1976—Kurt...
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  • mathematical statistics; he also influenced other researchers, notably John Tukey, in a similar direction. Drawing upon the background of his thesis, Wilks...
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  • ISBN 0-7167-4955-6. Mosteller, F.; Tukey, J. W. (1987) [1968]. "Data Analysis, including Statistics". The Collected Works of John W. Tukey: Philosophy and Principles...
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    filtering and signal processing leading to chirp radar. 1982 John Wilder Tukey For his contributions to the spectral analysis of random processes and the...
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  • Greek general and politician, President of Greece (b. 1917) 2000 – John Tukey, American mathematician and academic (b. 1915) 2001 – Rex T. Barber, American...
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  • first proposed by R. P. Fedorenko 1965 – Cooley–Tukey algorithm rediscovered by James Cooley and John Tukey 1965 – Levenshtein distance developed by Vladimir...
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  • from the original on 7 March 2013. Mccullagh, Peter (2003). "John Wilder Tukey. 16 June 1915 – 26 July 2000". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal...
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    (July 28, 2000). "John Tukey, 85, Statistician; Coined the Word 'Software'". The New York Times. "Biography 15.1, John W. Tukey (1915–2000)". South-Western...
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  • doi:10.1177/0956797611417632. ISSN 0956-7976. PMID 22006061. S2CID 13802986. Tukey, J.W. (1977). Exploratory data analysis Volume 2. Pearson. Box, George E...
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  • Molecular dynamics was invented independently by Aneesur Rahman. Cooley and Tukey re-invent the Fast Fourier transform (voted one of the top 10 algorithms...
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