Please answer the following question: Facts: - known for: stimulus sampling theory , mathematical psychology - caption: william kaye estes - thesis year: 1943 - death date: 17 august 2011 - field: psychology mathematical psychology cognitive psychology - doctoral advisor: b. f. skinner - birth date: june 17 , 1919 - thesis title: an experimental study of punishment - name: william kaye estes - image size: 150px - nationality: united states - influenced: association for psychological science - birth place: minneapolis , minnesota - alma mater: university of minnesota Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william kaye estes .
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william kaye estes -lrb- june 17 , 1919 -- august 17 , 2011 -rrb- was an american psychologist .a '' review of general psychology '' survey , published in 2002 , ranked estes as the 77th most cited psychologist of the 20th century .in order to develop a statistical explanation for the learning phenomena , william kaye estes developed the stimulus sampling theory in 1950 which suggested that a stimulus-response association is learned on a single trial ; however , the learning process is continuous and consists of the accumulation of distinct stimulus-response pairings .