Howard Levene (January 17, 1914 – July 2, 2003) was an American statistician and geneticist. He received his
Ph.D.
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from
Columbia University
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in 1947, and joined the faculty there shortly thereafter. He remained on the faculty at Columbia, where he served as professor of mathematical statistics and genetics, until 1982. He is known for developing
Levene's test In statistics, Levene's test is an inferential statistic used to assess the equality of variances for a variable calculated for two or more groups. Some common statistical procedures assume that variances of the populations from which different samp ...
, a modified form of the
one-way analysis of variance In statistics, one-way analysis of variance (abbreviated one-way ANOVA) is a technique that can be used to compare whether two sample's means are significantly different or not (using the F distribution). This technique can be used only for numeric ...
. He served as president of the
American Society of Naturalists The American Society of Naturalists was founded in 1883 and is one of the oldest professional societies dedicated to the biological sciences in North America. The purpose of the Society is "to advance and diffuse knowledge of organic evolution and o ...
in 1976.
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1914 births
2003 deaths
American statisticians
American geneticists
Statistical geneticists
Columbia University faculty
New York University alumni
Columbia University alumni
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