Wassily Hoeffding
Wassily Hoeffding (June 12, 1914 – February 28, 1991) 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.
Wassily Hoeffding | |
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| Born | 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 | |
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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