Sidney Siegel

Sidney Siegel (4 January 1916, New York City – 29 November 1961, Stanford, California) was an American psychologist who became especially well known for his work in popularizing non-parametric statistics for use in the behavioral sciences. He was a co-developer of the statistical test known as the Siegel–Tukey test.

In 1951 Siegel completed a B.A. in vocational arts at San Jose State College (now San Jose State University),^[1] then in 1953 a Ph.D. in Psychology at Stanford University. Except for a year spent at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, he thereafter taught at Pennsylvania State University, until his death in November 1961 of a coronary thrombosis.

His parents, Jacob and Rebecca Siegel, were Jewish immigrants from Romania.^[2]

• Siegel–Tukey test

• 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 American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Bargaining Behaviour (co-authored 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 John Wilder Tukey)
• 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

• In Memory of Alberta and Sidney Siegel