Connections, context, and community: Abraham Wald and the sequential probability ratio test

DOI10.1007/BF02985397zbMath1186.01023MaRDI QIDQ972575

Patti Wilger Hunter

Publication date: 21 May 2010

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of statistics (62-03) Sequential statistical analysis (62L10)

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