Erich Leo Lehmann

Erich Leo Lehmann (born 19 November 1917), a statistician, contributed to statistical and nonparametric hypothesis testing. He is one of the eponyms of the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem.

Lehmann obtained his MA in 1942 and his PhD in 1946, at the University of California, where he taught from 1942. During 1944-1945 he worked as an analyst for United States Air Force. He taught at Columbia University and at Princeton University during 1950–51, and then during 1951–1952 he was a visiting associate professor at Stanford University.

He was an editor of "The Annals of Mathematical Statistics" as well as president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Science.

In 1997, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, the department of statistics at the University of California at Berkeley created the Erich Lehmann Fund in Statistics [ [http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/?id=52 Erich Lehmann Fund in Statistics] ] to support the students of the department.

Publications

* "Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics", 1964, co-author J. L. Hodges
* "Elements of Finite Probability", 1965, co-author J. L. Hodges
* "Nonparametrics: Statistical Methods Based on Ranks", 1975
* "Testing Statistical Hypotheses", 1959
* "Theory of Point Estimation", 1983
* "Elements of Large-Sample Theory", 1998, ISBN 9780387985954

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