Abraham Wald
Abraham Wald · Technology & Engineering
Founded statistical decision and sequential analysis theory.
1902, Kolozsvár, Austria-Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) — 1950, Travancore, India
Romania · Austria · United States
Abraham Wald is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Founded statistical decision and sequential analysis theory.
Wald was a Jewish mathematician, born in Kolozsvár, who founded statistical decision theory and sequential analysis and made the classic 'survivorship bias' insight on aircraft armor. He fled Nazi-annexed Austria for the United States, where he became a leading mathematical statistician; he died in a plane crash in India. He came from an observant Jewish family.
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Founded statistical decision and sequential analysis theory.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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