Nationality American | Role Professor of mathematics Name Meyer Dwass | |
Born April 9, 1923
New Haven, Connecticut ( 1923-04-09 ) Institutions Northwestern University Died July 15, 1996, Broadview, Illinois, United States Alma mater University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Fields Probability theory, Statistics | ||
Institution Northwestern University Doctoral advisor Wassily Hoeffding | ||
Meyer Dwass (April 9, 1923 – July 15, 1996) was an American mathematical statistician known for his contributions to applied probability. Dwass was a professor of statistics at Northwestern University.
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Dwass attended George Washington University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1948. Under supervision of Wassilij Höffding, he earned a Ph.D. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1952.
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