# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/z-w-birnbaum
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:41:55.769Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/z-w-birnbaum"
name: "Z. W. Birnbaum"
slug: "z-w-birnbaum"
description: "Zygmunt Wilhelm \"Z. W.\" Birnbaum, often known as Bill Birnbaum, was a Polish-American mathematician and statistician who contributed to functional analysis, nonparametric testing and estimation, probability inequalities, survival distributions, competing risks, and reliability theory."
tagline: "American statistician (1903–2000)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1903-10-18"
deathDate: "2000-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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    title: "Z. W. Birnbaum"
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    title: "Zygmunt William Birnbaum"
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    title: "Zygmunt William Birnbaum"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump