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    Herman Chernoff (born July 1, 1923) is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist. He was formerly a professor at University of Illinois...
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  • commonly named after Herman Chernoff who described the method in a 1952 paper, though Chernoff himself attributed it to Herman Rubin. In 1938 Harald...
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    Chernoff faces, invented by applied mathematician, statistician and physicist Herman Chernoff in 1973, display multivariate data in the shape of a human...
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  • Chernoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Herman Chernoff (born 1923), American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist...
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  • In probability theory, Chernoff's distribution, named after Herman Chernoff, is the probability distribution of the random variable Z = argmax s ∈ R  ...
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    Wald in the context of sequential tests of statistical hypotheses. Herman Chernoff wrote an overview of optimal sequential designs, while adaptive designs...
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    Commission for Research in Economics Doctoral advisor Karl Menger Doctoral students Herman Chernoff Meyer Abraham Girshick Milton Sobel Charles Stein...
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  • statistics from Stanford in 1966, under the supervision of Professor Herman Chernoff. While in graduate school, Kadane worked for the Center for Naval Analyses...
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    publisher, bookseller, and U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau collector Herman Chernoff (born 1923), statistician Ida Conquest, actress Zach Cone, creator...
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    experiments. Sequential analysis was pioneered by Abraham Wald. In 1972, Herman Chernoff wrote an overview of optimal sequential designs, while adaptive designs...
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