{{short description|American statistician and geneticist}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Howard Levene | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)--> | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = <!-- if different from "name" --> | birth_date = {{birth date |1914|01|17}} | birth_place = New York City, New York | death_date = {{death date and age |2003|07|02 |1914|01|17}} | death_place = New York City, New York | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}--> | home_town = | other_names = | pronounce = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Genetics<br>Statistics | workplaces = Columbia University | patrons = | education = New York University<br>Columbia University | alma_mater = | thesis_title = Contributions to the Theory of Non-Parametric Tests of Randomness | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = 1953 | doctoral_advisor = Jacob Wolfowitz | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = {{plainlist|1= *William Kruskal *Bonnie Ray *I. Richard Savage }} | notable_students = | known_for = Levene's test | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = <!--(or | spouses = )--> | partner = <!--(or | partners = )--> | children = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | website = <!--{{URL|www.example.com}}--> | footnotes = }} '''Howard Levene''' (January 17, 1914 – July 2, 2003)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/200807/tx080700841p.pdf |title=Inside the AMS |date=2008 |website=Notices of the AMS |page=2 |access-date=2019-10-28}}</ref> was an American statistician and geneticist. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1947, and joined the faculty there shortly thereafter. He remained on the faculty at Columbia, where he served as professor of mathematical statistics and genetics, until 1982.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Howard Levene |encyclopedia=A Dictionary of Statistics |doi= |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100102245 |language=en }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wallace |first=B. |date=2004-01-01 |title=Howard Levene Remembered |journal=Journal of Heredity |language=en |volume=95 |issue=1 |pages=93–94 |doi=10.1093/jhered/esh007|pmid=14757739 |doi-access=free }}</ref> In statistics he is known for developing Levene's test, a modified form of the one-way analysis of variance.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Levene's Test |encyclopedia=The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods |publisher=Sage Publications, Inc. |location=Thousand Oaks, California|url=http://methods.sagepub.com/reference/the-sage-encyclopedia-of-social-science-research-methods/n488.xml |last=Cramer |first=Duncan |date=2004 |doi=10.4135/9781412950589.n488 |isbn=9780761923633}}</ref> His main contribution to population genetics is referred to, as "Levene's model".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Levene |first=Howard |date=1953 |title=Genetic equilibrium when more than one ecological niche is available |journal=The American Naturalist |language=en |volume=87 |issue=836 |pages=331-333}}</ref> It was the very first population genetic model, which incorporated existence of more than one ecological niche. He served as president of the American Society of Naturalists in 1976.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.amnat.org/about/history/past-ec.html |title=Past Officers of the ASN |website=American Society of Naturalists |access-date=2019-10-29}}</ref> Levene also is the namesake for a teaching award in Columbia's Department of Statistics, the Howard Levene Outstanding Teaching Award awarded since 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Howard Levene Outstanding Teaching Award |url=https://stat.columbia.edu/howard-levene-outstanding-teaching-award/ |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=Department of Statistics |language=en}}</ref>
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