Editing John Tukey (section)

{{short description|American mathematician}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = John Tukey
| image             = John Tukey.jpg
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1915|06|16}}
| birth_place       = [[New Bedford, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{death date and age|2000|07|26|1915|06|16}}
| death_place       = [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]], U.S.
| thesis_title      = On Denumerability in Topology<ref name="math">{{MathGenealogy|id=15860}}</ref>
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Solomon Lefschetz]]<ref name="math"/>
| doctoral_students = {{plainlist|
*[[David R. Brillinger]]
*[[Kai Lai Chung]]
*[[Arthur P. Dempster|Arthur Dempster]]
*[[Leo Goodman]]
*[[Karen Kafadar]]
*[[Paul Meier (statistician)|Paul Meier]]
*[[Frederick Mosteller]]
*[[John A. Hartigan]]
}}
| known_for         = {{ubl|[[Exploratory data analysis]]|[[Multiple comparisons problem]]|[[Projection pursuit]]|[[Box plot]]|[[Blackman–Tukey transformation]]|[[Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm]]|[[Anscombe transform#Alternatives|Freeman–Tukey transformation]]|[[Siegel–Tukey test]]|[[Ham sandwich theorem|Stone–Tukey theorem]]|[[Tukey–Duckworth test]]|[[Tukey's range test]]|[[Tukey lambda distribution]]|[[Trimean|Tukey's trimean]]|[[Tukey's test of additivity]]|[[Teichmüller–Tukey lemma|Tukey's lemma]]|[[Bland–Altman plot|Tukey mean difference plot]]|[[Centerpoint (geometry)|Tukey median]]|[[Tukey depth]]|[[Robust statistics#Empirical influence function|Tukey's biweight function]]|[[Outlier#Tukey's fences|Tukey's fences]]|[[Window function#Tukey window|Tukey window]]|[[Cepstrum]]|[[Flexagon]]|[[Median polish]]|[[Midhinge]]|[[Slash distribution]]|[[Theory of conjoint measurement]]|[[Bit|Coining the term 'bit']]|[[Scagnostics]]}}
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| field             = [[Topology]]
| work_institution  = {{ubl|[[Bell Labs]]|[[Princeton University]]}}
| prizes            = {{ubl|[[Wilks Memorial Award]] (1965)|[[National Medal of Science]] (1973)|[[Shewhart Medal]] (1976)|[[IEEE Medal of Honor]] (1982)|[https://web.archive.org/web/20241204032747/https://asq.org/about-asq/asq-awards/honors/deming Deming Medal] (1982)|[[Foreign Member of the Royal Society]] (1991)}}
| education         = {{ubl|[[Brown University]] ([[B. A.|BA]], [[M. S.|MS]])|[[Princeton University]] ([[PhD]])}}
}}
'''John Wilder Tukey''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|uː|k|i}};<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Discussion. John Tueky, Ram Gnanadesikan and David Hoaglin (1994) | website=[[YouTube]] | date=14 September 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZTQ7G1LwBM&t=50}}</ref> June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American [[mathematician]] and [[statistician]], best known for the development of the [[Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm|fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm]] and [[box plot]].<ref>{{cite journal |author-last=Sande |author-first=Gordon |title=Obituary: John Wilder Tukey |journal=[[Physics Today]] |date=July 2001 |volume=54 |issue=7 |pages=80–81 |doi=10.1063/1.1397408|doi-access=free }}</ref> The [[Tukey's range test|Tukey range test]], the [[Tukey lambda distribution]], the [[Tukey's test of additivity|Tukey test of additivity]], and the [[Teichmüller–Tukey lemma]] all bear his name. He is also credited with coining the term ''[[bit]]'' and the first published use of the word ''[[software]]''.