The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive's biography of Jerzy Neyman, the Polish-American statistician who built the Berkeley Statistical Laboratory and, with Egon Pearson, developed the modern framework for testing statistical hypotheses.
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PublisherMacTutor History of Mathematics, University of St Andrews
URLhttps://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Neyman/
Source Typeacademic biography
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A biography from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, a university-maintained academic history project (University of St Andrews); used here for uncontested biographical facts, cross-checked during research against independent citations of the 1933 and 1937 papers it describes. Sources
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