Sidney Siegel (4 January 1916, New York City – 29 November 1961, Stanford, California) was an American psychologist who became especially well known for his work in popularizing non-parametric statistics for use in the behavioral sciences. He was a co-developer of the statistical test known as the Siegel–Tukey test.
In 1951 Siegel completed a B.A. in vocational arts at San Jose State College (now San Jose State University), then in 1953 a Ph.D. in Psychology at Stanford University. Except for a year spent at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, he thereafter taught at Pennsylvania State University, until his death in November 1961 of a coronary thrombosis.
His parents, Jacob and Rebecca Siegel, were Jewish immigrants from Romania.Sidney Siegel (ed. Samuel Messick, Arthur H. Brayfield), Decision and Choice, p.2. McGraw-Hill, 1964
See also Siegel–Tukey test
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References Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 1956 Bargaining and Group Decision Making (co-authored with Lawrence E. Fouraker), winning the 1959 Monograph Price of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Bargaining Behaviour (co-authored with Lawrence E. Fouraker). A nonparametric sum of ranks procedure for relative spread in unpaired samples, in Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1960 (coauthored with John Wilder Tukey) Choice, Strategy, and Utility (completed posthumously by Alberta E. Siegel and Julia McMichael Andrews) Bargaining, Information and the Use of Threat (co-authored with Donald L. Harnett), 1961
External links In Memory of Alberta and Sidney Siegel