Sidney Siegel (4 January 1916 in

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– 29 November 1961) was an American

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who became especially well known for his work in popularising

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for use in the behavioural sciences. He was a co-developer of the statistical test known as the Siegel–Tukey test. Siegel completed a

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in Psychology in 1953 at

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. Except for a year spent at the

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at Stanford, he thereafter taught at

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, until his death in November 1961 of a coronary thrombosis. His parents, Jacob and Rebecca Siegel, were Jewish immigrants from

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.Sidney Siegel (ed. Samuel Messick, Arthur H. Brayfield), ''Decision and Choice'', p.2. McGraw-Hill, 1964

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* ''Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences'', 1956 * ''Bargaining and Group Decision Making'' (co-authored with Lawrence E. Fouraker), winning the 1959 ''Monograph Price'' of the

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* ''Bargaining Behaviour'' (co-authoree with Lawrence E. Fouraker). * ''A nonparametric sum of ranks procedure for relative spread in unpaired samples'', in ''Journal of the American Statistical Association'', 1960 (coauthored with

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) * ''Choice, Strategy, and Utility'' (completed posthumously by Alberta E. Siegel and Julia McMichael Andrews) * ''Bargaining, Information and the Use of Threat'' (co-authored with Donald L. Harnett), 1961

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In Memory of Alberta and Sidney Siegel
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