Leo Goodman

Leo Aria Goodman (August 7, 1928 – December 22, 2020) was a statistician known particularly for developing statistical methods for the social sciences, including statistical methods for analyzing categorical data and data from statistical surveys.

Leo A. Goodman
Born(1928-08-06)August 6, 1928
DiedDecember 22, 2020(2020-12-22) (aged 92)
Berkeley, California
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materSyracuse University, Princeton University
Known forSocial statistics, Goodman and Kruskal's lambda, Goodman and Kruskal's gamma
AwardsR. A. Fisher Lectureship (1968)
Wilks Memorial Award (1985)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorJohn Tukey, Samuel S. Wilks

Education

Goodman attended Stuyvesant High School[1] and he then went on to earn his AB degree summa cum laude from Syracuse University in 1948, majoring in mathematics and sociology.[2] He was class valedictorian. He moved to Princeton for postgraduate work in mathematical statistics, receiving his masters and doctorate in 1950.[2]

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.[2] Since 1987, he has been Class of 1938 Professor in the Sociology Department and the Statistics Department at the University of California, Berkeley.[2]

Awards and distinctions

In 1956 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[3]

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.[4]

Goodman died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in California.[5]

References
  1. Risen, Clay (2021-02-17). "Leo Goodman, Who Transformed Sociology With Stats, Dies at 92". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
  2. Becker, M. P. (2009). "A Conversation with Leo Goodman". Statistical Science. 24 (3): 361–385. arXiv:1010.0310. doi:10.1214/08-sts276. S2CID 88512370.
  3. View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-07-23.
  4. Anwar, Yasmin; January 15, Media Relations|; 2021January 18; 2021 (2021-01-15). "Leo Goodman, trailblazer in statistics and social sciences, dies at 92". Berkeley News. Retrieved 2021-02-18.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ‘A giant in his field’: UC Berkeley professor emeritus Leo Goodman dies at 92
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