Wassily Hoeffding was a Finnish-born American statistician and probabilist, born on 12 June 1914 and died on 28 February 1991. He was one of the founders of nonparametric statistics, in which he 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. Nonparametric statistics is the part of statistics that avoids assuming a particular form for the underlying distribution of the data.
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was a Finnish-born American statistician
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June 12, 1914
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Hoeffding was born in Mustamäki, Grand Duchy of Finland, although his place of birth is registered as St.
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In probability theory, Hoeffding's inequality provides an upper bound on the probability that the sum of bounded independent random variables deviates from
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In probability theory, Azuma's inequality or the Azuma-Hoeffding inequality (named after Kazuoki Azuma and Wassily Hoeffding) gives a concentration result for the values of martingales
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