Erich Leo Lehmann

Erich Lehmann
Born(1917-11-20)20 November 1917
Died12 September 2009(2009-09-12) (aged 91)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materDoctor of Philosophy - University of California, Berkeley
Known forTesting Statistical Hypotheses
Completeness (statistics)
Lehmann–Scheffé theorem
Hodges–Lehmann estimator
nonparametric tests
AwardsPresident of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Fellow of the American Statistical Association
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences.
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorJerzy Neyman
Doctoral studentsPeter 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.

  1. ^ Nanette Asimov (October 16, 2009). "Erich L. Lehmann – Berkeley professor – dies". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2009-12-12.