Wassily Hoeffding | |
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Born | Mustamäki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire | June 12, 1914
Died | February 28, 1991 | (aged 76)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Berlin University |
Known for | Hoeffding's inequality, Hoeffding's lemma |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistician |
Institutions | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Doctoral advisor | Alfred Klose |
Doctoral students |
Wassily Hoeffding (June 12, 1914 – February 28, 1991) was an 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.[1][2]
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.[3]
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