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'''John Wilder Tukey''' (1915-2000), statistician. Tukey was working at ''Princeton University'' and with ''AT&T Bell Laboratories'' delivering countless contributions to a variety of statistical problems influencing not only the scientific community but also a significant part of civil society.

Among his achievements are the distinction between [[Glossary:Exploratory_data_analysis|''exploratory'']] and ''confirmatory'' data analysis, the development of ''box plots'', and a very popular ''Fast Fourier Transform algorithm''.

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