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Wassily Hoeffding

American statistician · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1914 to 1991 · aged 76

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.

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Awards

Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics1949

About this person

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1914 to 1991 · aged 76