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{{short description|American statistician and geneticist}}
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| fields            = [[Biology:Genetics|Genetics]]<br>[[Statistics]]
| workplaces        = [[Organization:Columbia University|Columbia University]]
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| thesis_title      = Contributions to the Theory of Non-Parametric Tests of Randomness
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| thesis_year       = 1953
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*[[Biography:William Kruskal|William Kruskal]]
*[[Biography:Bonnie Ray|Bonnie Ray]]
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'''Howard Levene''' (January 17, 1914 – July 2, 2003)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/200807/tx080700841p.pdf |title=Inside the AMS |date=2008 |website=Notices of the AMS |page=2 |access-date=2019-10-28}}</ref> was an American statistician and geneticist. He received his [[Ph.D.]] from [[Organization:Columbia University|Columbia University]] 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.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Howard Levene |encyclopedia=A Dictionary of Statistics |doi= |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100102245 |language=en }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wallace |first=B. |date=2004-01-01 |title=Howard Levene Remembered |journal=Journal of Heredity |language=en |volume=95 |issue=1 |pages=93–94 |doi=10.1093/jhered/esh007|pmid=14757739 |doi-access=free }}</ref> He is known for developing [[Levene's test]], a modified form of the [[One-way analysis of variance|one-way analysis of variance]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Levene's Test |encyclopedia=The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods |publisher=Sage Publications, Inc. |location=Thousand Oaks, California|url=http://methods.sagepub.com/reference/the-sage-encyclopedia-of-social-science-research-methods/n488.xml |last=Cramer |first=Duncan |date=2004 |doi=10.4135/9781412950589.n488 |isbn=9780761923633}}</ref> He served as president of the [[Organization:American Society of Naturalists|American Society of Naturalists]] in 1976.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.amnat.org/about/history/past-ec.html |title=Past Officers of the ASN |website=American Society of Naturalists |access-date=2019-10-29}}</ref>

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