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LSC.0370  
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  • Conditions Governing Access
  • Immediate Source of Acquisition
  • Biographical History
  • UCLA Catalog Record ID
  • Preferred Citation
  • Scope and Contents
  • Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Wilfrid Joseph Dixon papers
    Creator: Dixon, Wilfrid Joseph, 1915
    Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0370
    Physical Description: 29.0 Linear Feet (29 cartons)
    Date (inclusive): 1940-1986
    Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
    Language of Material: Materials are in English and Russian.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Portions of collection unprocessed. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Source and date of receipt unknown.

    Biographical History

    Dixon was born in 1915 in Portland, Oregon; BA, Oregon State College, 1938; MA, University of Wisconsin, 1939; Ph.D., Princeton, 1944; assistant professor of mathematics (1942-44, 1945-46), University of Oklahoma; associate professor, then professor of mathematics (1946-55), University of Oregon; in 1955 became professor of preventive medicine, UCLA; served as chairman of the department of biomathematics (1967-74), wrote Introduction to statistical analysis, 3rd edition (with F.J. Massey, 1969); assoc. editor of Biometrics (1955-65) and Annals of Mathematical Statistics (1955-58).

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4232945 

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Wilfrid Joseph Dixon papers (Collection 370). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

    Scope and Contents

    Collection consists of materials relating to the work of UCLA biomathematician Wilfrid Joseph Dixon, including Russian language biomathematics and statistics texts.

    Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

    Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.