Joseph Lawson Hodges, Jr.

Joseph Lawson Hodges, Jr.
Born (1922-04-10)April 10, 1922
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
Died March 1, 2000(2000-03-01) (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. 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 Twentieth Air Force on Harmon Air Force Base, 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 for the rest of his career.[1]

Hodges is best known for his contributions to the field of statistics, including the Hodges–Lehmann estimator and Hodges’ estimator.

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