Wassily Hoeffding

Wassily Hoeffding

Wassily Hoeffding (Mustamäki, Finland, June 12 1914 - Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 28 1991) was an American statistician, and one of the founding fathers of the nonparametric statistics.

Writings

* "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

See also

* Hoeffding bounds
* Hoeffding C1 statistic
* Hoeffding's independence test
* Hoeffding's inequality
* Hoeffding-Blum-Kiefer-Rosenblatt process
* Terry-Hoeffding test

External links

* http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/whoeffding.pdf - a biography


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