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Science & Medicine

Emanuel Parzen

Who

Emanuel Parzen · Science & Medicine

What

Statistics; kernel density estimation

When

1929, New York City, USA — 2016, College Station, Texas, USA

Where

United States

Biography

Emanuel Parzen is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Statistics; kernel density estimation

How & why

Parzen was an American statistician who developed kernel density estimation (the Parzen window), a foundational nonparametric method for estimating probability distributions from data, and did influential work on time series and spectral analysis. His methods are widely used in statistics and machine learning. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

Contributions & Sources

Statistics; kernel density estimation

1929

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics