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Abraham Wald

American statistician

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contribution to statistics

  • sample space for a pair of dice
    In probability theory: Applications of conditional probability

    …by the Hungarian-born American statistician Abraham Wald in response to the demand for more efficient methods of industrial quality control during World War II. They also enter into insurance risk theory, which is discussed in the section Stochastic processes: Insurance risk theory.

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