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Wilcoxon

Wilcoxon

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An American chemist and statistician who lived from 1892 to 1965
  • proper noun
  • /ˈwɪlkəˌsɒn/
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  • WOMAN: Mr. Wilcoxon, have you met Miss Desmond?

Examples

  • My husband, Alien Wilcoxon, and our sons, Buz and Andy Wilcoxon, have been very patient and understanding during my years as editor, and I thank them for the love and laughter they have brought to my life.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Wilcoxon, F. Individual comparisons by ranking methods. Biometrics 1945; 1:80-3.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Notify Henry Wilcoxon.

    Sunset Boulevard (1950)

  • -DEMILLE: Harry Wilcoxon!

    Sunset Boulevard (1950)

  • My husband, Alien Wilcoxon, and our sons, Buz and Andy Wilcoxon, have been very patient and understanding during my years as editor, and I thank them for the love and laughter they have brought to my life.

    Academic text (2000)

  • -WILCOXON: Yes?

    Sunset Boulevard (1950)

  • Wilcoxon's matched-pair signed ranks tests for all subdivisions are presented; details of the tests are given in Siegel (1956).

    Academic text (1998)

  • The null hypothesis is that the two distributions come from the same underlying distribution, and the test statistics generally fail to reject the null hypothesis, using a rank-sum test (either Kolmogorov-Smirnov or Wilcoxon).

    Academic text (2016)

  • Mr. Wilcoxon was renowned for his contributions to both chemistry and statistics.

  • Frank Wilcoxon developed a statistical test that is widely used in research today.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Wilcoxon is a surname, best known from Frank Wilcoxon, an American chemist and statistician. The ending -son originally means 'son of', which helps you remember it is a family name.