Education
Oregon State University. Princeton University.
Oregon State University. Princeton University.
He made notable contributions to nonparametric statistics. A native of Portland, Oregon, Dixon received a bachelor"s degree in mathematics from Oregon State College in 1938. He continued his graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he earned a master’s degree in 1939.
Under supervision of Samuel South. Wilks, he then earned a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematical statistics from Princeton in 1944.
Dixon was on the faculties at Oklahoma (1942–1943), Oregon (1946–1955), and University of California, Los Angeles (1955–1986, then emeritus). During World World War II, he was an operations analyst on Guam.
