Abraham Wald

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Abraham Wald was a Hungarian-American mathematician and statistician best known for founding modern statistical decision theory and for his influential work on sequential analysis and survivorship bias during World War II.

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instanceOf Hungarian-American
human
mathematician
statistician
analyzed survivorship bias in military aircraft damage data
causeOfDeath airplane crash
citizenship Hungary
United States of America
contributedTo Neyman–Pearson theory of hypothesis testing
foundations of econometrics
linked to: Econometrics
countryOfBirth Austria-Hungary
countryOfDeath India
dateOfBirth 1902-10-31
dateOfDeath 1950-12-13
developedConcept admissibility in decision theory
complete class theorem in decision theory
sequential probability ratio test
statistical decision function
doctoralAdvisor Karl Menger
educatedAt University of Vienna
employer Columbia University
Cowles Commission for Research in Economics
linked to: Cowles Foundation
ethnicGroup Jewish
familyName Wald
fieldOfWork decision theory
econometrics
mathematics
sequential analysis
statistical inference
statistics
givenName Abraham
memberOf Columbia University faculty
name Abraham Wald
notableFor contributions to econometric theory
development of sequential analysis
founding modern statistical decision theory
work on survivorship bias in World War II aircraft damage analysis
notableWork Foundations of a General Theory of Sequential Decision Functions
Sequential Analysis
Statistical Decision Functions
placeOfBirth Cluj
linked to: Cluj-Napoca

Kolozsvár
Transylvania
placeOfDeath near Bangalore
religion Judaism
spouse Lucia Wald
workedFor Statistical Research Group at Columbia University
workedOn analysis of bullet hole distributions on returning aircraft in WWII
operational research problems during World War II
workLocation New York City

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Karl Menger notableStudent Abraham Wald
Abraham Wald name Abraham Wald
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Sequential Analysis developedBy Abraham Wald
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