Erich Leo Lehmann
| Erich Lehmann | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | Doctor of Philosophy - University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Jerzy Neyman |
| Known for | Testing Statistical Hypotheses Completeness (statistics) Lehmann–Scheffé theorem Hodges–Lehmann estimator nonparametric tests |
| Influences | Abraham Wald Henry Scheffé Alfred Tarski |
| Notable awards | President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow of the American Statistical Association American Academy of Arts and Sciences National Academy of Science. |
Erich Leo Lehmann (20 November 1917 – 12 September 2009) was an American statistician, who contributed to statistical and nonparametric hypothesis testing.[1] He is one of the eponyms of the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and of the Hodges–Lehmann estimator of the median of a population.
Lehmann obtained his MA in 1942 and his PhD in 1946, at the University of California, where he taught from 1942. During 1944–1945 he worked as an analyst for United States Air Force. He taught at Columbia University and at Princeton University during 1950–51, and then during 1951–1952 he was a visiting associate professor at Stanford University.
He was an editor of "The Annals of Mathematical Statistics" and president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Science.
In 1997, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, the department of statistics at the University of California at Berkeley created the Erich Lehmann Fund in Statistics[2] to support the students of the department.
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[edit] Selected publications
[edit] Books
- Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics, 1964, co-author J. L. Hodges
- Elements of Finite Probability, 1965, co-author J. L. Hodges
- Lehmann, Erich L. (2006). Nonparametrics: Statistical methods based on ranks (Reprinting of 1988 revision of 1975 Holden-Day ed.). New York: Springer. pp. xvi+463 pp.. ISBN 978-0-387-35212-1, 0-387-35212-0. MR2279708.
- Testing Statistical Hypotheses, 1959
- Theory of Point Estimation, 1983
- Elements of Large-Sample Theory, 1998, ISBN 9780387985954
- Reminiscences of a Statistician, 2007, ISBN 9780387715964
- Fisher, Neyman, and the Creation of Classical Statistics, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4419-9499-8 [published posthumously]
[edit] Articles
- Lehmann, E.L.; Scheffé, H. (1950). "Completeness, similar regions, and unbiased estimation. I.". Sankhyā: the Indian Journal of Statistics 10 (4): 305–340. JSTOR 25048038. MR39201.
- Lehmann, E.L.; Scheffé, H. (1955). "Completeness, similar regions, and unbiased estimation. II". Sankhyā: the Indian Journal of Statistics 15 (3): 219–236. JSTOR 25048243. MR72410.
- Hodges, J. L.; Lehmann, E. L. (1956). "The efficiency of some nonparametric competitors of the t-test". Ann. Math. Statist. 27 (2): 324–335. doi:10.1214/aoms/1177728261. http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate?view=body&id=pdf_1&handle=euclid.aoms/1177728261.
- Hodges, J. L.; Lehmann, E. L. (1963). "Estimation of location based on ranks". Ann. Math. Statist. 34 (2): 598–611. doi:10.1214/aoms/1177704172.
[edit] References
- ^ Nanette Asimov (October 16, 2009). "Erich L. Lehmann – Berkeley professor – dies". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/15/BAJP1A535I.DTL&type=science. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
- ^ Erich Lehmann Fund in Statistics
[edit] Further reading
- Brillinger, D. R. (2010). "Erich Leo Lehmann, 1917-2009". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) 173 (3): 683–686. doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00645_1.x.
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