Wilfrid Joseph Dixon (December 13, 1915 – September 20, 2008) was an American mathematician and statistician.
Mood) described and provided theory and estimation methods for the adaptive Up-and-Down experimental design, which was new and poorly documented at the time.
[2] This article became the cornerstone publication for up-and-down, a family of designs used in many scientific, engineering and medical fields, and to which Dixon continued to contribute in later years.
[4] In the 1960s at UCLA, Dixon developed BMDP, a statistical software package for biomedical analyses.
[5] His daughter, Janet D. Elashoff, is also a statistician who became a UCLA faculty member, and an ASA fellow in 1978.