Wassily Hoeffding, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wassily Hoeffding

American statistician

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1914

Place of Birth: Finland

Date of Death: 28-Feb-1991

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, statistician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Wassily Hoeffding (June 12, 1914 – February 28, 1991) was a Finnish statistician and probabilist.
Hoeffding was one of the founders of nonparametric statistics, in which Hoeffding contributed the idea and basic results on U-statistics.In probability theory, Hoeffding's inequality provides an upper bound on the probability for the sum of random variables to deviate from its expected value.