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Erich Lehmann | |
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Born | |
Died | 12 September 2009 | (aged 91)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Doctor of Philosophy - University of California, Berkeley |
Known for | Testing Statistical Hypotheses Completeness (statistics) Lehmann–Scheffé theorem Hodges–Lehmann estimator nonparametric tests |
Awards | President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow of the American Statistical Association American Academy of Arts and Sciences National Academy of Sciences. |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Doctoral advisor | Jerzy Neyman |
Doctoral students | Peter J. Bickel Allan Birnbaum David Draper Madan Lal Puri Frank Hampel |
Erich Leo Lehmann (20 November 1917 – 12 September 2009) was a German-born American statistician, who made a major contribution to nonparametric hypothesis testing.[1] He is one of the eponyms of the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and of the Hodges–Lehmann estimator of the median of a population.