# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerzy-neyman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:12:54.091Z

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name: "Jerzy Neyman"
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description: "Jerzy Spława-Neyman was a Polish mathematician and statistician who first introduced the modern concept of a confidence interval into statistical hypothesis testing and, with Egon Pearson, revised Ronald Fisher's null hypothesis testing. Neyman allocation, an optimal strategy for choosing sample sizes in stratified sampling, is named for him."
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birthDate: "1894-04-16"
deathDate: "1981-08-05"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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