Erich Leo Lehmann
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 16 years ago |
| Date of birth | November 20,1917 |
| Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
| Born | Strasbourg |
| France | |
| Date of died | September 12,2009 |
| Died | Berkeley |
| California | |
| United States | |
| Doctoral advisor | Jerzy Neyman |
| Job | Statistician |
| Books | Fisher, Neyman, and the Creation of Classical Statistics |
| Reminiscences of a Statistician: The Company I Kept | |
| Elements of large-sample theory | |
| Theory of point estimation | |
| Nonparametrics | |
| Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics | |
| Testing statistical hypotheses | |
| Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics, Part 1: Probability | |
| Awards | R. A. Fisher Lectureship |
| Wilks Memorial Award | |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | |
| Notable student | Peter J. Bickel |
| Javier Rojo | |
| Influence | Henry Scheffé |
| Abraham Wald | |
| Alfred Tarski | |
| Pao-Lu Hsu | |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 560352 |
Erich Leo Lehmann Life story
Erich Leo Lehmann was a German-born American statistician, who made a major contribution to nonparametric hypothesis testing. He is one of the eponyms of the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and of the Hodges–Lehmann estimator of the median of a population.