Z. W. Birnbaum

Z. W. Birnbaum
Born
Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum

(1903-10-18)October 18, 1903
DiedDecember 15, 2000(2000-12-15) (aged 97)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Other namesBill Birnbaum
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Lwów
University of Göttingen
Known forBirnbaum-Marshall inequality
Birnbaum–Orlicz space
Birnbaum–Saunders distribution
nonparametric tests
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
Wilks Memorial Award
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics, Mathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington, Seattle
Doctoral advisorHugo Steinhaus
Other academic advisorsEdmund Landau
Felix Bernstein

Zygmunt Wilhelm "Z. W." Birnbaum (18 October 1903 – 15 December 2000), often known as Bill Birnbaum, was a Polish-American mathematician and statistician who contributed to functional analysis, nonparametric testing and estimation, probability inequalities, survival distributions, competing risks, and reliability theory.