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Wilks is a surname.

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<i>Cittarium pica</i> species of mollusc

Cittarium pica, common name the West Indian top shell or magpie shell, is a species of large edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae. This species has a large black and white shell.

Wilks Broadcasting Group, LLC was a media company based in Alpharetta, Georgia, United States. As of January 2016, it owns nine radio stations in three mid-size markets, but had since sold such stations. Jeff Wilks is the CEO of this company.

The Wilks Memorial Award is awarded by the American Statistical Association to recognize outstanding contributions to statistics. It was established in 1964 and is awarded yearly. It is named in memory of the statistician Samuel S. Wilks. The award consists of a medal, a citation and a cash honorarium of US$1500.

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The Shapiro–Wilk test is a test of normality in frequentist statistics. It was published in 1965 by Samuel Sanford Shapiro and Martin Wilk.

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<i>Live from Lincoln Center</i> television series

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WILK-FM news/talk radio station in Avoca, Pennsylvania, United States

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Eugene Charniak is a Computer Science and Cognitive Science professor at Brown University. He has an A.B. in Physics from The University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Computer Science. His research has always been in the area of language understanding or technologies which relate to it, such as knowledge representation, reasoning under uncertainty, and learning. Since the early 1990s he has been interested in statistical techniques for language understanding. His research in this area has included work in the subareas of part-of-speech tagging, probabilistic context-free grammar induction, and, more recently, syntactic disambiguation through word statistics, efficient syntactic parsing, and lexical resource acquisition through statistical means.

Samuel Stanley Wilks was an American mathematician and academic who played an important role in the development of mathematical statistics, especially in regard to practical applications.

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WILK (AM) news/talk radio station in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States

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Live at 25 is a live album released by the American hard rock band Steppenwolf in 1995.

Steven Bernard Wilks is an American football coach who is the current defensive coordinator of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He previously was the head coach for the Arizona Cardinals for one season and was fired after a 3-13 record. He also spent time as defensive backs coach for the Chicago Bears and San Diego Chargers, and as defensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers.

Michael John Wilk is an American keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer best known for his contributions to John Kay and Steppenwolf. He has also worked with Boz Scaggs, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, Billy Burnette, Phil Seymour, Danny Hutton, the Pointer Sisters, Tom Scott, and the actor Scott Baio. Working with Steve Cropper of Booker T. & the M.G.'s and the Blues Brothers, Wilk performed and recorded the music for the movie Satisfaction. Wilk also worked on the Pretty In Pink soundtrack and has worked on television commercials. He currently works in his recording studio in Portland, Oregon. He also currently works with the University of Alabama Million Dollar Band.

Wilk is a surname.

Mallik Rashaun Coley Wilks is an English footballer who plays as a forward for EFL League One side Doncaster Rovers on loan from Leeds United. He can play as a winger or as a striker.