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William L. Sanders (26 April 1942 [1] – 16 March 2017) was an American statistician, a senior research fellow with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.He developed the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS), also known as the Educational Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS), a method for measuring a teacher's effect on student performance by tracking the progress of ...
It includes the founders of statistics and others. It includes some 17th- and 18th-century mathematicians and polymaths whose work is regarded as influential in shaping the later discipline of statistics. Also included are various actuaries, economists, and demographers known for providing leadership in applying statistics to their fields.
William Sanders (statistician) (1942–2017), senior research fellow with the University of North Carolina William Sanders (writer) (1942–2017), American speculative fiction writer William David Sanders (1951–1999), U.S. teacher and victim of Columbine High School massacre
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English: 1890: 1962: Wrote the textbooks and articles that defined the academic discipline of statistics, inspiring the creation of statistics departments at universities throughout the world. Systematized previous results with informative terminology, substantially improving previous results with mathematical analysis (and claims).
William Gualbert Saunders (1837–1923), English designer of stained glass; William L. Saunders (1835–1891), colonel in the U.S. Civil War and North Carolina secretary of state; William Penman Saunders (1912–1980), business manager and politician in Newfoundland, Canada; William U. Saunders, barber, lawyer and politician in the United States
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Sanders was born into a working-class family in Patchogue, New York. His interest in Mesoamerica was sparked by reading William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico. During his high school years, he struck up a friendship with classmate and fellow future anthropologist Harold C. Conklin. [5]