Wassily Hoeffding (Mukhino, Grão-Ducado da Finlândia, — Chapel Hill (Carolina do Norte), ) foi um estatístico e probabilista finlandês.

Publicações Ver o collected works de Wassily Hoeffding.The Collected Works of Wassily Hoeffding (1994), N. I. Fisher and P. K. Sen, eds., Springer-Verlag, New York. 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

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Limite de Chernoff

Ligações externas

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11429&page=208 - a biography

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