Samuel Sanford Shapiro

Samuel Sanford Shapiro (born July 13, 1930) is an American statistician and engineer. He is a professor emeritus of statistics at Florida International University. He is known for his co-authorship of the Shapiro–Wilk test and the Shapiro–Francia test.

Samuel S. Shapiro
Born (1930-07-13) July 13, 1930
New York City
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRutgers University
Columbia University
City College of New York
Known forShapiro–Wilk test
Shapiro–Francia test
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsFlorida International University

A native of New York City, Shapiro graduated from City College of New York with a degree in statistics in 1952, and took an MS in industrial engineering at Columbia University in 1954. He briefly served as a statistician in the US Army Chemical Corps, before earning a MS (1960) and PhD (1963) in statistics at Rutgers University.[1] In 1972 he joined the faculty at Florida International University.

In 1987 he was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2]

References
  1. http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100459538
  2. View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-11-01.
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