. . . "1914Z"^^ . . "Wassily Hoeffding (June 12, 1914 \u2013 February 28, 1991) was a Finnish statistician and probabilist. Hoeffding was one of the founders of nonparametric statistics, in which Hoeffding contributed the idea and basic results on U-statistics.In probability theory, Hoeffding's inequality provides an upper bound on the probability for the sum of random variables to deviate from its expected value."@en . "1914-06-12Z"^^ . "Wassily Hoeffding"@en . "1991-02-28Z"^^ . . . . . "American statistician" . "Hoeffding, Wassily"@en . . . "1991Z"^^ .