Alfred Aeppli | |
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| Born | 15 July 1894 Zürich, Switzerland |
| Alma mater | ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
| Known for | Pólya–Aeppli distribution |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Probability theory |
| Thesis | Zur Theorie verketteter Wahrscheinlichkeiten: Markoff-Ketten höherer Ordnung ("On the theory of chained probabilities: Higher-order Markov chains") (1924) |
| Academic advisors | George Pólya Hermann Weyl |
Alfred Aeppli was a Swiss mathematician. The Pólya–Aeppli distribution in probability theory and statistics is named after him and his doctoral advisor George Pólya.