Hubert Lilliefors


Hubert Whitman Lilliefors was an American statistician, noted for his introduction of the Lilliefors test.
Lilliefors received a BA in mathematics from George Washington University in 1952. He was a professor of statistics at George Washington University for 39 years, and he also obtained his PhD there in 1964 under the supervision of Solomon Kullback.
A memorial session in his honor was held at the Joint Statistical Meetings in August 2009 in Washington, D.C..