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I like Chernoff’s appealing and self deprecating humor. He’s still active, age 96! pic.twitter.com/7SIK4hUi5o
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Reading Chernoff in interview with Bather in 1996 and I learned that he attributes the Chernoff bound (exponentially decreasing bounds on tail distributions of sums of independent random variables) to Rubin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_… pic.twitter.com/9pBjnRMNwG
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The whole interview is delightful and funny and well worth reading for an understanding of the early days of statistics, how the field developed out of the second world war and into the 50s and 60s at Stanford and MIT:
projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1… pic.twitter.com/1ipu7rlilU
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