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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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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.
The president of the American Statistical Association is the head of the American Statistical Association (ASA). According to the association's bylaws, the president is an officer, and a member of the board of directors and of the executive committee. Elections for the position are held annually, in which all full members are eligible to vote.
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
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]