Jerzy Neyman
Polish statistician (1894-1981) · Poland · On the map · Academics · Died at 87
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.
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1981Died5 August 19811979Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward1968National Medal of ScienceAwardWilks Memorial AwardAward1966Guy Medal in GoldAward1950Fellow of the Econometric SocietyAward1936Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsAward1894Born16 April 1894
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Neyman allocation, an optimal strategy for choosing sample sizes in stratified sampling, is named for him.
Country
Poland
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1894 to 1981 · aged 87
