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Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data... to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty.

Herman Chernoff

Herman Chernoff

Herman Chernoff

Born: July 1, 1923

Died: July 6, 2026 (aged 103)

Bio: Herman Chernoff was an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist. He was a professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Stanford, MIT, and at Harvard University.

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