Education
Columbia University; Rutgers University.
engineer professor statistician
Columbia University; Rutgers University.
He is a professor emeritus of statistics at Florida International University. He is known for his co-authorship of the Shapiro–Wilk test and the Shapiro–Francia test. A native of New York City, Shapiro graduated from City College of New York with a degree in statistics in 1952, and took an Mississippi in industrial engineering at Columbia University in 1954.
He briefly served as a statistician in the United States Army Chemical Corps, before earning a Mississippi (1960) and Doctor of Philosophy (1963) in statistics at Rutgers University.
In 1972 he joined the faculty at Florida International University.