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Science & Medicine
Leonard Jimmie Savage
Who
Leonard Jimmie Savage · Science & Medicine
What
Foundations of Bayesian statistics and decision theory
When
1917, Detroit, Michigan, USA — 1971, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Where
United States
Biography
Leonard Jimmie Savage is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Foundations of Bayesian statistics and decision theory
How & why
Leonard Jimmie Savage was an American mathematician and statistician who, in 'The Foundations of Statistics' (1954), gave the axiomatic basis for subjective (Bayesian) probability and decision theory, showing how rational agents should act under uncertainty. He was born into a Jewish family in Michigan.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Contributions & Sources
Foundations of Bayesian statistics and decision theory
1917
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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