Jerzy Neyman
Polish American mathematician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jerzy Neyman (April 16, 1894 – August 5, 1981; born Jerzy Spława-Neyman; Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ ˈspwava ˈnɛjman]) was a Polish mathematician and statistician who spent the first part of his professional career at various institutions in Warsaw, Poland and then at University College London, and the second part at the University of California, Berkeley. Neyman first introduced the modern concept of a confidence interval into statistical hypothesis testing[2] and co-revised Ronald Fisher's null hypothesis testing (in collaboration with Egon Pearson).
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Born | Jerzy Spława-Neyman (1894-04-16)April 16, 1894 |
Died | August 5, 1981(1981-08-05) (aged 87) Oakland, California, US |
Nationality | Polish |
Alma mater | University of Warsaw Kharkov University |
Known for | Neyman construction Neyman–Pearson lemma Neyman–Rubin causal model Fisher–Neyman factorization theorem Confidence interval Hypothesis testing Statistics of galaxy clusters |
Awards | Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1958) Guy Medal (Gold, 1966) National Medal of Science (1968) Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology University College London University of California, Berkeley |
Doctoral advisor | Wacław Sierpiński |
Doctoral students | George Dantzig Lucien Le Cam Evelyn Fix Erich Leo Lehmann Joseph Hodges Pao-Lu Hsu |
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