Nationality American | Name Ledyard Tucker | |
Born September 19, 1910Glenwood Springs, Colorado ( 1910-09-19 ) Alma mater University of ColoradoUniversity of Chicago Known for Angoff methodTucker decompositionTucker–Koopman–Linn model Died August 16, 2004, Savoy, Illinois, United States | ||
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.
In 1957 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
He died at his home in Savoy, Illinois on August 16, 2004 aged 94.