# Wassily Hoeffding

> Wassily Hoeffding was a Finnish-born American statistician and probabilist. Hoeffding was one of the founders of nonparametric statistics, in which Hoeffding contributed the idea and basic results on U-statistics.

*American statistician*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1914-06-12
- **Died:** 1991-02-28
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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