Scheffé

Henry Scheffé

Born: 11 April 1907 in New York, USA
Died: 5 July 1977 in Berkeley, California, USA

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Scheffé began studying pure mathematics and wrote a thesis on differential equations. Then he moved to statistics, joining Wilks at Princeton. He later was chairman of department at both Columbia and Berkeley.

His most important work was a comprehensive review of nonparametric statistics in 1943 and his book The Analysis of Variance (1959). He was in the middle of a revision of this book when he died as the result of a bicycle accident.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. C Daniel and E L Lehmann, Henry Scheffé, Annals of Statistics 7 (1979), 1149-1161. 
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