Wassily Hoeffding
Statistician, Deceased Person
1914 – 1991
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Who was Wassily Hoeffding?
Wassily Hoeffding was a Finnish statistician and probabilist. Hoeffding was one of the founders of nonparametric statistics, in which Hoeffding contributed the idea and basic results on U-statistics.
In probability theory, Hoeffding's inequality provides an upper bound on the probability for the sum of random variables to deviate from its expected value.
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- Born
- Jun 12, 1914
Mukhino - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Died
- Feb 28, 1991
Chapel Hill
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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