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    Abraham Wald (/wɔːld/; Hungarian: Wald Ábrahám, Yiddish: אברהם וואַלד; (1902-10-31)31 October 1902 – (1950-12-13)13 December 1950) was a Jewish Hungarian...
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    environment are seen regularly. During World War II, the statistician Abraham Wald took survivorship bias into his calculations when considering how to...
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    the mathematician and statistician Abraham Wald and great-grandson of the chief rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner. Wald's parents died in a plane crash when...
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  • In statistics, the Wald test (named after Abraham Wald) assesses constraints on statistical parameters based on the weighted distance between the unrestricted...
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  • theorem was first proved by Henry Mann and Abraham Wald in 1943, and it is therefore sometimes called the Mann–Wald theorem. Meanwhile, Denis Sargan refers...
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  • The Wald–Wolfowitz runs test (or simply runs test), named after statisticians Abraham Wald and Jacob Wolfowitz is a non-parametric statistical test that...
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  • is named after the mathematician Abraham Wald, who used these ideas in a series of influential publications. Wald's martingale can be seen as discrete-time...
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    data. The concept, as old as Laplace, was reintroduced in statistics by Abraham Wald in the middle of the 20th century. In the context of economics, for example...
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  • independent of the summands. The equation is named after the mathematician Abraham Wald. An identity for the second moment is given by the Blackwell–Girshick...
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  • Wald is a German surname meaning "forest". Notable people with the surname include: Abraham Wald (1902–1950), Hungarian mathematician of German descent...
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