| Joseph Lawson Hodges, Jr. | |
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Joseph Lawson Hodges, Jr.
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| Born | April 10, 1922 Shreveport, Louisiana, United States |
| Died | March 1, 2000 (aged 77) California, United States |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Jerzy Neyman |
| Doctoral students | Sakti Ghosh David Heilbron Jerome Klotz James Thompson Alvin Wiggins |
| Known for | Hodges Bivariate Sign Test Hodges-Lehmann estimator Hodges’ estimator |
| Notable awards | Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1950 Guggenheim fellow, 1956-57 President, WNAR Region, Biometric Society, 1958-60 |
Joseph Lawson Hodges, Jr. (April 10, 1922 – March 1, 2000) was a statistician. He obtained a Ph.D. in 1949 at the University of California, Berkeley, and joined the statistics faculty there.
Born in 1922 in Shreveport, Louisiana, Hodges grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1942 he received his B.A. from the University of California in 1942. In the summer of 1944 he joined an Operations analysis group and after some training served in that capacity (together with his fellow budding statisticians Erich Lehmann and George Nicholson) with the 20th Air force in Guam. After the war he continued this work for another year in Washington, D.C. There he met Theodora Jane Long, and they married in 1947. He then joined the new statistics program at Berkeley and remained there until 2000[1].
Hodges is best known for his contributions to the field of statistics such including the Hodges-Lehmann estimator and Hodges’ estimator.