Ledyard Tucker American Mathematician
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First Name |
Ledyard
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Last Name |
Tucker
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Birthday |
19th September, 1910
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Birthplace |
Glenwood Springs
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Died |
16th August, 2004
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Place of Death |
Savoy, Illinois
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Zodiac Sign |
Virgo
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Nationality |
American
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Occupation |
Mathematician
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Ledyard R. Tucker (19 September 1910 – 16 August 2004) was an American mathematician who specialized in statistics and psychometrics. His Ph.D. advisor at the University of Chicago was Louis Leon Thurstone. He was a lecturer in psychology at Princeton University from 1948 to 1960, while simultaneously working at ETS. In 1960, he moved to working full-time in academia when he joined the University of Illinois. The rest of his career was spent as professor of quantitative psychology and educational psychology at UIUC until he retired in 1979. Tucker is best known for his Tucker decomposition and Tucker–Koopman–Linn model. He is credited with the invention of Angoff method.
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