Galen Richard Shorack (born 14 May 1939) is an American statistician. Shorack completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at the

University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a Public university, public research university in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1876, the university is organized into nine colleges and schools and offers 420 undergraduate and gra ...

in 1960 and 1962, respectively. He then obtained a Ph.D in statistics from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

in 1965, authoring the doctoral dissertation ''Nonparametric Tests and Estimation of Scale in the Two Sample Problem'' under the direction of Lincoln E. Moses. Shorack joined the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...

faculty upon earning his doctorate in 1965, and remained on the faculty until 2015, when he retired and was granted emeritus status. Shorack was elected to fellowship of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1974.

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