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Wassily Hoeffding

American statistician.

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Occupation

Mathematician
Statistician
University Teacher

Field of Work

Probability Theory

Place of Birth

Gorkovskoye
Country
:
Russian Empire

Place of Death

Chapel Hill

Country of Citizenship

United States

Date of Birth

6/12/1914

Date of Death

2/28/1991

Instance Of

Human

Given Name

Wassily

Member Of

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
American Statistical Association
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
(1949 - )
Subject Has Role
:
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Start Time
: 1949

Educated At

Frederick William University Berlin
(1934 - 1940)
Start Time
: 1934
End Time
: 1940
Handelshochschule Berlin
(1933 - 1934)
Start Time
: 1933
End Time
: 1934

Employer

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(1948 - 1979)
End Cause
:
Professor Emeritus
Start Time
: 1948
End Time
: 1979

Sex or Gender

Male

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

Russian
German
English

Doctoral Advisor

Notable Work

Relative

Harald Høffding
Kinship to Subject
:
Granduncle

Academic Thesis

Place of Burial

Chatham County

Position Held

Chairperson
(1969 - 1969)
Replaced By
:
Jack Kiefer
Organization Directed by the Office or Position
:
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Start Time
: 1969
End Time
: 1969

Award Received

Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
(1949)
Point in Time
: 1949
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Jahrbuch Über Die Fortschritte Der Mathematik
(1940 - 1945)
Object of Statement Has Role
:
Part-Time Employment
Start Time
: 1940
End Time
: 1945
Maßstabinvariante Korrelationstheorie
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:bug2: http://wikiba.se/ontology#Url
Publication Date
: 1940
Hoeffding's Lemma
Hoeffding's Independence Test
Alfred Klose
Replaces
:
Herman Chernoff
Hoeffding's Inequality