Samuel Sanford Shapiro

Samuel S. Shapiro
Born (1930-07-13) July 13, 1930
New York City
Nationality American
Fields Statistics
Institutions Florida International University
Alma mater Rutgers University
Columbia University
City College of New York
Known for Shapiro–Wilk test
Shapiro–Francia test

Samuel Sanford Shapiro (born July 13, 1930) is an American statistician and engineer. He is a professor emeritus of statistics at Florida International University. He is known for his co-authorship of the Shapiro–Wilk test and the Shapiro–Francia test.

A native of New York City, Shapiro graduated from City College of New York with a degree in statistics in 1952, and took an MS in industrial engineering at Columbia University in 1954. He briefly served as a statistician in the US Army Chemical Corps, before earning a MS (1960) and PhD (1963) in statistics at Rutgers University.[1] In 1972 he joined the faculty at Florida International University.

In 1987 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2]

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