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Wassily Hoeffding
American statistician

Wassily Hoeffding

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American statistician
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Finland
Place of death
Chapel Hill
Age
76 years
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Biography

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.
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.

Personal life

Hoeffding was born in Mustamäki, present-day Finland, (Gorkovskoye, Russia until 1940), although his place of birth is registered as St. Petersburg on his birth certificate. His father was an economist and a disciple of Peter Struve, the Russian social scientist and public figure. His paternal grandparents were Danish and his father's uncle was the Danish philosopher Harald Høffding. His mother, née Wedensky, had studied medicine. Both grandfathers had been engineers. In 1918 the family left Tsarskoye Selo for the Ukraine and, after traveling through scenes of civil war, finally left Russia for Denmark in 1920, where Wassily entered school.

In 1924 the family settled in Berlin. He migrated with his mother to the United States in 1946. His younger brother, Oleg, became a military historian in the United States.

Work

In 1948, he introduced the concept of U-statistics.

See the collected works of Wassily Hoeffding.

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 asymptotically 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 Jacob 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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