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| William Henry Kruskal (October 10, 1919 – April 21, 2005) was
an American mathematician and statistician. He is best known for
having formulated the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of
variance (together with W. Allen Wallis), a widely-used
nonparametric statistical method. Kruskal was born in New York
City to a successful fur wholesaler. His mother, Lillian Rose
Vorhaus Kruskal Oppenheimer, became a noted promoter of Origami
during the early era of television. He was the oldest of five
children, three of whom, including himself, became researchers
in mathematics and physics; see Joseph Kruskal and Martin
Kruskal. Kruskal left Antioch College to attend Harvard
University, receiving Bachelor's and Master's degrees in
mathematics in 1940 and 1941. He pursued a Ph. D. in
Mathematical Sciences at Columbia University, graduating in
1955. During the Second World War, Kruskal served at the U.S