Z. W. Birnbaum
American statistician (1903-2000) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 97
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.
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2000Died15 December 20001984Wilks Memorial AwardAward1956Fellow of the American Statistical AssociationAward1949Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical StatisticsAward1903Born18 October 1903
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Lived 1903 to 2000 · aged 97
