Jerzy Neyman
Jerzy Spława-Neyman | |
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Neyman in 1969 | |
| Born | Jerzy Spława-Neyman April 16, 1894 |
| Died | August 5, 1981 (aged 87) Oakland, California, US |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Alma mater | University of Warsaw Kharkov University |
| Known for | Neyman construction Neyman–Pearson lemma Neyman–Rubin causal model Fisher–Neyman factorization theorem Confidence interval Hypothesis testing Statistics of galaxy clusters |
| Awards | Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1958) Guy Medal (Gold, 1966) National Medal of Science (1968) Fellow of the Royal Society |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology University College London University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Wacław Sierpiński |
| Doctoral students | George Dantzig Lucien Le Cam Evelyn Fix Erich Leo Lehmann Joseph Hodges Pao-Lu Hsu |
Jerzy Spława-Neyman (April 16, 1894 – August 5, 1981; Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ ˈspwava ˈnɛjman]) 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.
Spława-Neyman spent the first part of his professional career at various institutions in Warsaw, Poland, and then at University College London; and the second part, at the University of California, Berkeley.