Z. W. Birnbaum
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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.
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Z. W. Birnbaum | |
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Born | Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum (1903-10-18)October 18, 1903 |
Died | December 15, 2000(2000-12-15) (aged 97) Seattle, Washington, United States |
Other names | Bill Birnbaum |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | University of Lwów University of Göttingen |
Known for | Birnbaum-Marshall inequality Birnbaum–Orlicz space Birnbaum–Saunders distribution nonparametric tests |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship Wilks Memorial Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics, Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Washington, Seattle |
Doctoral advisor | Hugo Steinhaus |
Other academic advisors | Edmund Landau Felix Bernstein |
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