Robbins, Herbert
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Name (Latin)
Robbins, Herbert
Other forms of name
Robbins, Herbert, 1915-2001
Robbins, Herbert Ellis
Date of birth
1915-01-12
Date of death
2001-02-12
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Herbert Ellis Robbins was an American mathematician and statistician; did research in topology, measure theory, statistics; the Robbins lemma, used in empirical Bayes methods, is named after him; also named after him are Robbins algebras, the Robbins theorem, the Whitney-Robbins synthesis and Robbins' problem (of optimal stopping); PhD from Harvard University ( (Wikipedia, July 30, 2024:) )
- His Selected papers, c1985:CIP t.p. (Herbert Robbins) CIP galley (Dept. of Statistics, Columbia Univ.)
- LC data base, 2-15-85(hdg.: Robbins, Herbert Ellis; usage: Herbert Robbins)
- New York times, Feb. 15, 2001:obituaries (Dr. Herbert E. Robbins; statistician; b. Jan. 12, 1915 in New Castle, Pa.; d. Feb. 12, 2001 in Princeton, N.J.)