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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 ...
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
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.
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Statistics is the theory and application of mathematics to the scientific method including hypothesis generation, experimental design, sampling, data collection, data summarization, estimation, prediction and inference from those results to the population from which the experimental sample was drawn.
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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]