Wassily Hoeffding

Wassily Hoeffding
Wassily Hoeffding
Nascimento	12 de junho de 1914; Mukhino, Grão-Ducado da Finlândia
Morte	28 de fevereiro de 1991 (76 anos); Chapel Hill (Carolina do Norte)
Sepultamento	condado de Chatham
Nacionalidade	finlandês, estadunidense
Cidadania	Estados Unidos
Alma mater	Universidade de Berlim
Ocupação	matemático, estatístico, professor universitário
Distinções	Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1949);
Empregador(a)	Universidade da Carolina do Norte em Chapel Hill, Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik
Orientador(a)(es/s)	Alfred Klose
Instituições	Universidade da Carolina do Norte em Chapel Hill
Obras destacadas	Hoeffding's inequality, Hoeffding's lemma, teste de independência de Hoeffding
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Wassily Hoeffding (Mukhino, Grão-Ducado da Finlândia, 12 de junho de 1914 — Chapel Hill (Carolina do Norte), 28 de fevereiro de 1991) foi um estatístico e probabilista finlandês.

Publicações

Ver o collected works de Wassily Hoeffding.^[1]

Masstabinvariante Korrelationstheorie, 1940
On the distribution of the rank correlation coefficient t when the variates are not independent in Biometrika, 1947
A class of statistics with a symptotically normal distribution, 1948
A nonparametric test for independence, 1948
The central limit theorem for dependent random variables (with Herbert Robbins), 1948
"Optimum" nonparametric tests, 1951
A combinatorial central limit theorem, 1951
The large-sample power of test based on permutations of observations, 1952
On the distribution of the expected values of the order statistics, 1953
The efficiency of tests (with J. R. Rosenblatt), 1955
On the distribution of the number of successes in independent trials, 1956
Distinguishability of sets of distributions. (The case of independent and identically distributed random variables.), (with Jack Wolfowitz), 1958
Lower bounds for the expected sample size and the average risk of a sequential procedure, 1960
Probability inequalities for sums of bounded random variables, 1963

Ver também

Limite de Chernoff

Referências

↑ The Collected Works of Wassily Hoeffding (1994), N. I. Fisher and P. K. Sen, eds., Springer-Verlag, New York.

Ligações externas

Wassily Hoeffding (em inglês) no Mathematics Genealogy Project
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11429&page=208 - a biography

[1] The Collected Works of Wassily Hoeffding (1994), N. I. Fisher and P. K. Sen, eds., Springer-Verlag, New York.

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