Erich Leo Lehmann

American statistician (1917-2009) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 91

Erich Leo Lehmann was a German-born American statistician, who made a major contribution to nonparametric hypothesis testing. He is one of the eponyms of the Lehmann-Scheffé theorem and of the Hodges-Lehmann estimator.

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2009Died12 September 20091996Wilks Memorial AwardAward1985Honorary doctor of Leiden UniversityAward1956Fellow of the American Statistical AssociationAward1948Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsAward1917Born20 November 1917