Herman Chernoff
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Herman Chernoff (born July 1, 1923) is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist. He was formerly a professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Stanford, and MIT, currently emeritus at Harvard University.[1][2]
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Born | (1923-07-01) July 1, 1923 (age 100) New York City, New York, U.S. |
Citizenship | United States |
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Thesis | Studentization in testing of hypotheses (1948) |
Doctoral advisor | Abraham Wald |
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