Samuel Sanford Shapiro, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Samuel Sanford Shapiro

American statistician

Date of Birth: 13-Jul-1930

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: engineer, statistician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Samuel Sanford Shapiro (born July 13, 1930) is an American statistician and engineer.
He is a professor emeritus of statistics at Florida International University.
He is known for his co-authorship of the Shapiro–Wilk test and the Shapiro–Francia test. A native of New York City, Shapiro graduated from City College of New York with a degree in statistics in 1952, and took an MS in industrial engineering at Columbia University in 1954.
He briefly served as a statistician in the US Army Chemical Corps, before earning a MS (1960) and PhD (1963) in statistics at Rutgers University.
In 1972 he joined the faculty at Florida International University. In 1987 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.