Background
Hoeffding was born in Mustamäki, Grand Duchy of Finland, which was part of the Russian empire.
mathematician statistician university professor
Hoeffding was born in Mustamäki, Grand Duchy of Finland, which was part of the Russian empire.
Hoeffding was one of the founders of nonparametric statistics, in which Hoeffding contributed the idea and basic results on U-statistics. In probability theory, Hoeffding"s inequality provides an upper bound on the probability for the sum of random variables to deviate from its expected value.