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The Impact of Wassily Hoeffding’s Work on Sequential Analysis

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The Collected Works of Wassily Hoeffding

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I was tremendously privileged to have been one of Wassily Hoeffding’s colleagues. While his demeanor and utter clarity of thought could be intimidating at times, it truthfully can be stated that he was always gracious and generous in his assessments of his colleagues, reserving for himself standards that only someone of his exceptional intellectual stature could hope to achieve.

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  1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

    Gordon Simons

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  1. Division of Mathematics and Statisics, CSIRO, E6B, Macquarie University Campus, North Ryde, NSW, 2113, Australia

    N. I. Fisher

  2. Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA

    P. K. Sen

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Simons, G. (1994). The Impact of Wassily Hoeffding’s Work on Sequential Analysis. In: Fisher, N.I., Sen, P.K. (eds) The Collected Works of Wassily Hoeffding. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0865-5_2

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