Leo Goodman

Leo Aria Goodman (August 7, 1928 – December 22, 2020) was a statistician known particularly for developing statistical methods for the social sciences, including statistical methods for analyzing categorical data and data from statistical surveys.
Education.
Goodman attended Stuyvesant High School and he then went on to earn his AB degree "summa cum laude" from Syracuse University in 1948, majoring in mathematics and sociology. He was class valedictorian. He moved to Princeton for postgraduate work in mathematical statistics, receiving his masters and doctorate in 1950.
Work.
Goodman began his career in 1950 at the University of Chicago, where he would stay, save for a number of visiting professorships, until 1987. Since 1987, he has been Class of 1938 Professor in the Sociology Department and the Statistics Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
Awards and distinctions.
In 1956 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Personal life and death.
He was married to Ann Davidow; the marriage ended in divorce. He and his ex-wife had two children and were godparents to Sylvia Plath's first child, Frieda Hughes. He died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in California.