Dixon, Wilfrid Joseph, 1915-....

Dixon was born in 1915 in Portland, OR; BA, Oregon State College, 1938; MA, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1939; Ph. D., Princeton, 1944; asst. professor of mathematics (1942-44, 1945-46), Univ. of Oklahoma; assoc. professor, then professor of mathematics (1946-55), Univ. of Oregon; in 1955 became professor of preventive medicine, UCLA; served as chairman of the department of biomathematics (1967-74), wrote Introduction to statistical analysis, 3rd edition (with F.J. Massey, 1969); assoc. editor of Biometrics (1955-65) and Annals of Mathematical Statistics (1955-58).

From the description of Papers, 1940-1986. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 40477776