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Abraham Wald

Hungarian mathematician

Abraham Wald was a Jewish Hungarian mathematician who contributed to decision theory, geometry and econometrics, and founded the field of sequential analysis. Wikipedia

Born: October 31, 1902, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Died: December 13, 1950 (age 48�years), Travancore

Children: Robert Wald

Doctoral advisor: Karl Menger

Doctoral students: Herman Chernoff; Meyer Abraham Girshick; Milton Sobel; Charles Stein

Books

Statistical decision functions1950 Sequential Analysis1947 Selected Papers in Statistics and Probability

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