Gábor J. Székely
Mathematician, Academic
1947 –
Who is Gábor J. Székely?
Gábor J. Székely is a Hungarian-American statistician/mathematician best known for introducing E-statistics or energy statistics [see E-statistics or Package energy in R ], e.g. the distance correlation which is a bona fide dependence measure, equals zero exactly when the variables are independent, the distance skewness which equals zero exactly when the probability distribution is diagonally symmetric, the E-statistic for normality test and the E-statistic for clustering. Other important discoveries include the Hungarian semigroups, the location testing for Gaussian scale mixture distributions, the uncertainty principle of game theory, the half-coin which involves negative probability, and the solution of an old open problem of lottery mathematics: in a 5-from-90 lotto the minimum number of tickets one needs to buy to guarantee that at least one of these tickets has 2 matches is exactly 100.
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- Born
- Feb 4, 1947
Budapest - Also known as
- Gabor J Szekely
- Profession
- Education
- Eötvös Loránd University
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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