Julius R. Blum

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Julius Rubin Blum (born 1922 in Nuremberg ; † April 13, 1982 ) was an American mathematical statistician, professor at the University of California, Davis .

Life

In 1937 his parents sent Blum to an uncle in Germany to be safe from the Nazis. They themselves died as Jews in the Holocaust . After military service in the Second World War in the US Army, Blum studied mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in 1949 and a doctorate in 1953 under Michel Loève (and Lucien Le Cam ) with the dissertation Strong Consistency of Stochastic Approximation Methods . He was then at Indiana University and Sandia National Laboratories and, from 1963, also professor at the University of New Mexico . From 1974 he was professor at the University of Wisconsin and 1976/77 program director for statistics at the National Science Foundation. After two years at the University of Arizona , he went to the University of California, Davis in 1979. He died of a heart attack.

He dealt in particular with asymptotic behavior of stochastic processes and ergodic theory . He also dealt with nonparametric statistics .

A test for statistical independence is named after him, Murray Rosenblatt (* 1926) and Jack Carl Kiefer (1924–1981).

Fonts

  • with Judah Rosenblatt Probability and Statistics , Philadelphia: Saunders 1972

literature

  • M. Rosenblatt, FJ Samaniego Julius R. Blum 1922-1982 , Annals of Statistics, 13, 1985, pp. 1-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ Blum, Kiefer, Rosenblatt Distribution free tests of independence based on the sample distribution function , Annals of Mathematical Statistics 32, 1961, pp. 485–498
  3. ↑ Blum, Kiefer and Rosenblatt test of bivariate independence
personal data
SURNAME Blum, Julius R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blum, Julius Rubin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1982