Herman Chernoff

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Herman Chernoff (born July 1, 1923) is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist formerly a professor at MIT and latterly working at Harvard University.

[edit] See also

• Chernoff bound
• Chernoff's inequality
• Chernoff faces
• Chernoff's distribution

[edit] Sources

• John Bather, A conversation with Herman Chernoff, Statistical Science 11 (4): 335–350, 1996. doi:10.1214/ss/1032280306

[edit] External links

• Chernoff's faculty bio at Harvard
• Chernoff faces