Leo Goodman
{{Short description|American statistician and sociologist (1928–2020)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|8|7}}
| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|12|22|1928|08|07}}
| death_place = Berkeley, California, U.S.
| fields = Statistics
| workplaces = University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley
| alma_mater = Syracuse University, Princeton University
| doctoral_advisor = John Tukey, Samuel S. Wilks
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| known_for = Social statistics, Goodman and Kruskal's lambda, Goodman and Kruskal's gamma
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| awards = R. A. Fisher Lectureship (1968)
Wilks Memorial Award (1985)
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Leo Aria Goodman (August 7, 1928 – December 22, 2020) was an American statistician. He was known particularly for developing statistical methods for the social sciences, including statistical methods for analyzing categorical data and data from statistical surveys.
Education
Goodman was born in Brooklyn. He attended Stuyvesant High School{{Cite news|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=2021-02-17|title=Leo Goodman, Who Transformed Sociology With Stats, Dies at 92|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/obituaries/leo-a-goodman-dead-coronavirus.html|access-date=2021-02-18|issn=0362-4331}} and he then went on to earn his AB degree summa cum laude from Syracuse University in 1948, majoring in mathematics and sociology.{{Cite journal |last= Becker |first= M. P. |year= 2009 |title= A Conversation with Leo Goodman |journal= Statistical Science |volume= 24 |issue= 3 |pages= 361–385 |doi=10.1214/08-sts276|arxiv= 1010.0310 |s2cid= 88512370 }} He was class valedictorian. He moved to Princeton for postgraduate work in mathematical statistics, receiving his masters and doctorate in 1950.
Work
Goodman began his career in 1950 at the University of Chicago, where he would stay, save for a number of visiting professorships, until 1987. Since 1987, he has been Class of 1938 Professor in the Sociology Department and the Statistics Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
Awards and distinctions
He was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1956,[http://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm View/Search Fellows of the ASA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616161612/https://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm |date=2016-06-16 }}, accessed 2016-07-23. a member of the American Academy of Sciences in 1973, a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1974,{{Cite web |title=Leo A. Goodman |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/55230.html |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=www.nasonline.org}} and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1976.{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Leo+Goodman&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}
Personal life and death
He was married to Ann Davidow; the marriage ended in divorce. He and his ex-wife had two children and were godparents to Sylvia Plath's first child, Frieda Hughes.{{Cite web|last=Anwar|first=Yasmin|date=2021-01-15|title=Leo Goodman, trailblazer in statistics and social sciences, dies at 92|url=https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/01/15/leo-goodman-trailblazer-in-statistics-and-social-sciences-dies-at-92/|access-date=2021-02-18|website=Berkeley News|language=en-US}}
Goodman died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in California.[https://www.dailycal.org/2020/12/28/a-giant-in-his-field-uc-berkeley-professor-emeritus-leo-goodman-dies-at-92/ ‘A giant in his field’: UC Berkeley professor emeritus Leo Goodman dies at 92]
References
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External links
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- [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QEfafIMAAAAJ&hl=en Leo Goodman in Google Scholar]
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Category:American statisticians
Category:Syracuse University alumni
Category:Princeton University alumni
Category:University of Chicago faculty
Category:University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
Category:Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Category:Mathematicians from New York (state)