# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wassily-hoeffding
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:59:01.042Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/wassily-hoeffding"
name: "Wassily Hoeffding"
slug: "wassily-hoeffding"
description: "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."
tagline: "American statistician"
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birthDate: "1914-06-12"
deathDate: "1991-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Hoeffding"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump