George W. Snedecor
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George Waddel Snedecor (October 20, 1881 – February 15, 1974) was an American mathematician and statistician. He contributed to the foundations of analysis of variance, data analysis, experimental design, and statistical methodology. Snedecor's F distribution and the George W. Snedecor Award of the American Statistical Association are named after him.
Snedecor was awarded honorary doctorates in science by North Carolina State University in 1956 and by Iowa State University in 1958.