Background
Born in 1922 in Shreveport, Louisiana, Hodges grew up in Phoenix, Arizona.
Born in 1922 in Shreveport, Louisiana, Hodges grew up in Phoenix, Arizona.
He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in 1949 at the University of California, Berkeley, and joined the statistics faculty there.
He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California in 1942. In the summer of 1944 he joined an Operations analysis group and after some training served in that capacity (together with his fellow budding statisticians Erich Lehmann and George Nicholson) with the Twentieth Air Force on Harmon Air Force Base, Guam. After the war he continued this work for another year in Washington, District of Columbia He then joined the new statistics program at Berkeley and remained there for the rest of his career.
Hodges is best known for his contributions to the field of statistics, including the Hodges–Lehmann estimator and Hodges’ estimator.