Zbyněk Šidák

Zbyněk Šidák (24 October 1933 – 12 November 1999) was a Czech mathematician. He is known for developing the Šidák correction.

Zbyněk Šidák
Born(1933-10-24)24 October 1933
Golčův Jeníkov, Czechoslovakia
Died12 November 1999(1999-11-12) (aged 66)
EducationCharles University in Prague
Known forŠidák correction
Spouse(s)Krista Štěpničková
Scientific career
Fieldsstatistics

Early life and education

Šidák was born and raised in Golčův Jeníkov.[1] He completed his undergraduate studies in statistics at Charles University in Prague in 1956, received a Ph.D. in 1961, and a DrSc. in 1973.[1]

Career

Beginning in 1956, and continuing until his death, Šidák was a researcher in the mathematical department of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and spent several years as head of the Department of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics.[1]

During his life, Šidák held posts as a visiting faculty member at the University of Stockholm, University of North Carolina, Moscow State University, Michigan State University, and others.[1] He also served as chief editor of the scholarly journal Applications of Mathematics.[1]

The Šidák correction, a method used to counteract the problem of multiple comparisons, was credited to a 1967 paper by Šidák.[1]

Personal life

In 1958 Šidák married Krista Štěpničková. They had two sons and a daughter.[1]

gollark: I'm getting many CPU usage warnings on IRC.
gollark: It's compiling.
gollark: You can happily cast basically anything to anything, often with no complaints, and most things have to be ints or void pointers because there are no generics (I do not count the "generics" which are just type-level switches).
gollark: <@332271551481118732> Produce dependently typed C.
gollark: C's type system is basically an afterthought.

References
  1. Seidler, Jan (2000). "The life and work of Zbyněk Šidák (1933–1999)" (PDF). Applications in Mathematics. 45 (321): 321–336. doi:10.1023/A:1022238410461. hdl:10338.dmlcz/134443.
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