Dr Joseph Kruskal

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Joseph Bernard Kruskal (1928 � 2010) was an American mathematician, statistician, computer scientist and psychometrician. He was a student at the University of Chicago and at Princeton University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1954. Dr Kruskal applied his statistical work to linguistics, in an experimental lexicostatistical study of Indo-European languages, together with the linguists Isidore Dyen and Paul Black. Their database is still widely-used.