Henry Scheffé

Henry Scheffé (born April 11, 1907 in New York City , † July 5, 1977 in Berkeley (California) ) was an American mathematical statistician.

Henry Scheffé

Scheffé was the son of German immigrants. His father was a baker but was unemployed during the Great Depression and the family went through difficult times. Scheffé studied at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and from 1928 at the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor's degree in 1931. He married in 1934 and received his doctorate in 1935 at the University of Wisconsin with Rudolph Ernest Langer with a dissertation on differential equations ( The Asymptotic Solutions of Certain Linear Differential Equations in Which the Coefficient of the Parameter May Have a Zero ). He taught mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, Oregon State University and Reed College before going to Princeton University in 1941 , where he turned to statistics with Samuel Stanley Wilks . During World War II he worked at the Office of Scientific Research and Development . From 1944 he was at Syracuse University , from 1946 at the University of California, Los Angeles , and from 1948 at Columbia University , where he headed the statistics faculty before he became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1953 . From 1965 to 1968 he was also the head of the statistics faculty there, and in 1974 he retired . He then taught at Indiana University Bloomington for three years .

Henry Scheffé was President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1954 and Vice President of the American Statistical Association from 1954 to 1956 .

The Scheffé Theorem and the Scheffé Test (1953) were named after him (see post-hoc test ), together with Erich Leo Lehmann also the Lehmann-Scheffé Theorem .

Fonts

The Analysis of Variance , Wiley 1959.
Statistical Inference in the Non-Parametric Case . In: Annals of Mathematical Statistics , Volume 14, 1943, pp. 305-332.
A method for judging all contrasts in the analysis of variance . In: Biometrika , Volume 40, 1953, pp. 87-110.
together with Lehmann: Completeness, similar regions, and unbiased estimation , part 1, 2. In: Sankhyā. The Indian Journal of Statistics , Volume 10, 1950, pp. 305-340.

Cuthbert Daniel, Erich Leo Lehmann: HENRY SCHEFFÉ 1907–1977 . In: The Annuals of Statistics , Volume 7, No. 6, pp. 1149-1161 ( digitized version ).