Jerzy Neyman

Jerzy Neyman
Neyman in 1969
Born
Jerzy Spława-Neyman

(1894-04-16)April 16, 1894
DiedAugust 5, 1981(1981-08-05) (aged 87)
NationalityPolish
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Kharkov University
Known forNeyman construction
Neyman–Pearson lemma
Neyman–Rubin causal model
Fisher–Neyman factorization theorem
Confidence interval
Hypothesis testing
Statistics of galaxy clusters
AwardsNewcomb Cleveland Prize (1958)
Guy Medal (Gold, 1966)
National Medal of Science (1968)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsNencki Institute of Experimental Biology
University College London
University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorWacław Sierpiński
Doctoral studentsGeorge Dantzig
Lucien Le Cam
Evelyn Fix
Erich Leo Lehmann
Joseph Hodges
Pao-Lu Hsu

Jerzy Neyman (April 16, 1894 – August 5, 1981; born Jerzy Spława-Neyman; Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ ˈspwava ˈnɛjman]) was a Polish mathematician and statistician who first introduced the modern concept of a confidence interval into statistical hypothesis testing[2] and, with Egon Pearson, revised Ronald Fisher's null hypothesis testing.

Neyman 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.

  1. ^ Kendall, D. G.; Bartlett, M. S.; Page, T. L. (1982). "Jerzy Neyman. 16 April 1894-5 August 1981". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 28: 379–412. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1982.0015. JSTOR 769904.
  2. ^ Salsburg, David (2002). The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century. Macmillan. p. 122. ISBN 9780805071344.