Theodore Wilbur Anderson

Theodore Wilbur Anderson (1918-2016) was an American mathematician and statistician who specialized in the analysis of multivariate data. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he served on the faculty of Columbia University from 1946 until he moved to Stanford University in 1967, where he became emeritus professor in 1988. He edited the Annals of Mathematical Statistics from 1950 to 1952 and was elected president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1962. His 1958 textbook An Introduction to Multivariate Analysis educated a generation of theorists and applied statisticians. He is also known for the Anderson-Darling test of whether a sample did not arise from a given distribution, and for the Anderson-Bahadur algorithm with Raghu Raj Bahadur. Anderson's theorem on integrals over convex bodies is named after him. He died in Stanford, California in 2016, aged 98.