Leo Aria Goodman (August 7, 1928 – December 22, 2020) was an American statistician.
He attended Stuyvesant High School[1] and he then went on to earn his AB degree summa cum laude from Syracuse University in 1948, majoring in mathematics and sociology.
He moved to Princeton for postgraduate work in mathematical statistics, receiving his masters and doctorate in 1950.
[2] Goodman began his career in 1950 at the University of Chicago, where he would stay, save for a number of visiting professorships, until 1987.
He and his ex-wife had two children and were godparents to Sylvia Plath's first child, Frieda Hughes.