Died 1981-08-05.
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Jerzy Neyman
Jerzy Spława-Neyman was a Polish mathematician and statistician who first introduced the modern concept of a confidence interval into statistical hypothesis testing and, with Egon Pearson, revised Ronald Fisher's null hypothesis testing. Neyman allocation, an optimal strategy for choosing sample sizes in stratified sampling, is named for him.
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science · Polish American mathematician (1894–1981) · mathematician · philosopher · statistician · university teacher · also Jerzy Neyman, Jerzy Spława-Neyman, Neyman
Born 16 April 1894 · Died 5 August 1981 · Q539544
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1981· 1 entry
1979· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1979).
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1968· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1968).
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Awarded Wilks Memorial Award (1968).
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1966· 2 entries
Won Guy Medal in Gold (1966).
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Was awarded the Guy Medal of the Royal Statistical Society and, three years later, the U
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1950).
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1938· 1 entry
Moved to Berkeley, where he worked for the rest of his life
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1936· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1936).
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1928· 1 entry
In Bologna and a Plenary Speaker of the ICM in 1954 in Amsterdam
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1927· 1 entry
Studied at University of Paris (1926–1927).
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1926· 1 entry
Studied at University College London (1925–1926).
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1924· 2 entries
For a dissertation titled "On the Applications of the Theory of Probability to Agricultural Experiments"
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Studied at University of Warsaw (1924–1924).
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1921· 1 entry
Returned to Poland in a program of repatriation of POWs after the Polish-Soviet War
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1919· 1 entry
Studied at National University of Kharkiv (1912–1919).
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1912· 1 entry
Where he was taught by Ukrainian probabilist Sergei Natanovich Bernstein
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1909· 1 entry
Under the name Yuri Cheslavovich Neyman
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1894· 1 entry
Born 1894-04-16.
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