who specialized in the analysis of multivariate data. A graduate of Northwestern U, Anderson (supervised by Wilks) gained his PhD at Princeton U in 1945. In 1946 he joined the staff at Columbia U, moving in 1967 to Stanford U. He was Editor of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics 1950–2, and President of the IMS in 1963. He was the IMS's Wald Lecturer in 1982 and the COPSS Fisher Lecturer in 1985. He was the ASA's Wilks Award winner in 1988. Anderson submitted his final paper a month before his death.

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