Erich Leo Lehmann Scientist

Erich Leo Lehmann (20 November 1917 – 12 September 2009) was an 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.

Personal facts

Birth dateNovember 20, 1917
Citizenship
United States
Date of deathSeptember 12, 2009
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
Known for
Completeness (statistics)
Non-parametric statistics
Lehmann–Scheffé theorem
Hodges–Lehmann estimator

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Scientist

awards
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
American Statistical Association
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
doctoral advisor
doctoral student
Field of study
Statistics
influenced by

Erich Leo Lehmann on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://books.google.com/books?id=W0U57b3QG18C&lpg=PR2&pg=PR2#v=onepage&q=&f=false
  2. http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate?view=body&id=pdf_1&handle=euclid.aoms/1177728261