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Authorised form of nameNeyman; Jerzy (1894 - 1981)
Dates1894 - 1981
Place of birthBendery, Russia
Date of birth16 April 1894
Place of deathBerkeley, California, USA
Date of death05/08/1981
Research fieldStatistics
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election26/04/1979
SourceSources:
DSB vol 18 pp 669-675
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1982 vol 28 pp 379-411, plate, by D G Kendall, M S Bartlett and T L Page
CodeNA1936
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1979/43Neyman, Jerzy: certificate of election to the Royal Society1979
RR/46/42Referee's report by George Udny Yule, on a paper 'On the problem of the most efficient tests of statistical hypotheses' by Jerzy Neyman and Egon Sharpe Pearson5 October 1932
RR/46/43Referee's report by Ronald Aylmer Fisher, on a paper 'On the problem of the most efficient tests of statistical hypotheses' by Jerzy Neyman and Egon Sharpe Pearson[September 1932]
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