Erich Leo Lehmann, American statistician (died 2009)

Erich Leo Lehmann

American statistician (1917–2009)

Erich Leo Lehmann was a German-born American statistician, who made a major contribution to nonparametric hypothesis testing. He is one of the eponyms of the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and of the Hodges–Lehmann estimator of the median of a population.