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American statistician (born 1910)
Jacob Wolfowitz
Wolfowitz in 1970 (photo courtesy of MFO)
Born
March 19, 1910
Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died
July 16, 1981 (aged 71)
Tampa, Florida, United States
Nationality
American
Education
City University of New York
Known for
Wald–Wolfowitz runs test
Spouse
Lillian Dundes
Children
Laura W. Sachs, Paul Wolfowitz
Scientific career
Fields
Statistics
Institutions
University of South Florida
Doctoral advisor
Donald Flanders
Doctoral students
Albert H. Bowker
Jacob Wolfowitz (March 19, 1910 – July 16, 1981) was a Polish-born American Jewish statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was the father of former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group President Paul Wolfowitz.
JacobWolfowitz (March 19, 1910 – July 16, 1981) was a Polish-born American Jewish statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was...
for his companion". Wolfowitz is the only World Bank president to have resigned over a scandal. The second child of JacobWolfowitz (b. Warsaw; 1910–1981)...
}{\partial \theta }}f(\theta )+X.} The Kiefer–Wolfowitz algorithm was introduced in 1952 by JacobWolfowitz and Jack Kiefer, and was motivated by the publication...
Wolfowitz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: JacobWolfowitz, (1910–1981) American statistician and information theorist Clare Selgin...
developed by Abraham Wald and later proven to be optimal by Wald and JacobWolfowitz. Neyman and Pearson's 1933 result inspired Wald to reformulate it as...
named after him Norbert Wiener, cybernetics Terry Winograd, SHRDLU JacobWolfowitz, Polish-born information theorist Stephen Wolfram, British-American...
method of sequential analysis is first attributed to Abraham Wald with JacobWolfowitz, W. Allen Wallis, and Milton Friedman while at Columbia University's...
gradient descent. Building on this work one year later, Jack Kiefer and JacobWolfowitz published an optimization algorithm very close to stochastic gradient...
International Statistical Institute (ISI). In 1992, Katehakis was awarded the Wolfowitz Prize for “introducing dynamic allocation in survey sampling for the first...
independent and identically distributed random variables.), (with JacobWolfowitz), 1958 Lower bounds for the expected sample size and the average risk...
(PhD 1982), topology and geometry, Professor at University of Chicago JacobWolfowitz (PhD 1942), statistics and information theory Jeffrey Epstein Mikhail...
philosophy of science where he studied under Abraham Wald and was a peer of JacobWolfowitz. After a thesis titled Language and Empiricism earned him an M.A. in...
Nadarajah-Haghighi (UNH) class of distribution is named after him. JacobWolfowitz Prize (2007) University of Manchester Education Award (2021) Extreme...
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David Blackwell 1957 Alexander Mood 1958 Leonard Jimmie Savage 1959 JacobWolfowitz 1960 John Tukey 1961 Erich L. Lehmann 1962 Albert H. Bowker 1963 Theodore...
Contributions to the Theory of Non-Parametric Tests of Randomness (1953) Doctoral advisor JacobWolfowitz Doctoral students William Kruskal Bonnie Ray...
mathematical statisticians like John von Neumann, Aryeh Dvoretzky, JacobWolfowitz, Jack C. Kiefer, and David Blackwell, providing greater ties with economic...
(PhD 1982), topology and geometry; Professor at University of Chicago JacobWolfowitz (PhD 1942) Wojciech Zaremba (PhD 2016), co-founder of OpenAI List of...
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Fellow, Noether Lecturer (2007), known for Culler–Vogtmann Outer space JacobWolfowitz (Professor of Mathematics 1951-1970) — member of the National Academy...
Prominent neoconservatives in the George W. Bush administration included Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Richard Perle, Paul Bremer, and Douglas Feith. Although...
of Charlie Banks, Calling It Quits, and Money Monster. He played Paul Wolfowitz in Oliver Stone's W. In 2012, he co-starred in The Bourne Legacy, the...