Jerzy Neyman
✶April 16, 1894
†August 5, 1981
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✶April 16, 1894
†August 5, 1981
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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.
Polish statistician (1894-1981)
Biography from the article Jerzy Neyman on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.