Z. W. Birnbaum

Z. W. Birnbaum
Born	Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum (1903-10-18)October 18, 1903 Lemberg, Austria-Hungary
Died	December 15, 2000(2000-12-15) (aged 97) Seattle, Washington, United States
Other names	Bill Birnbaum
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	University of Lwów University of Göttingen
Known for	Birnbaum-Marshall inequality Birnbaum–Orlicz space Birnbaum–Saunders distribution nonparametric tests
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship Wilks Memorial Award
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics, Mathematics
Institutions	University of Washington, Seattle
Doctoral advisor	Hugo Steinhaus
Other academic advisors	Edmund Landau Felix Bernstein

Zygmunt Wilhelm "Z. W." Birnbaum (18 October 1903 – 15 December 2000), 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.