Jacob Wolfowitz

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Jacob Wolfowitz is affiliated with the following schools: University of South Florida, Cornell University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Columbia University, New York University

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According to Wikipedia, Jacob Wolfowitz was a Polish-born American Jewish statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was the father of former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group President Paul Wolfowitz.

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Stochastic Estimation of the Maximum of a Regression Function (1952) (1996)
Optimum Character of the Sequential Probability Ratio Test (1948) (1087)
CONSISTENCY OF THE MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR IN THE PRESENCE OF INFINITELY MANY INCIDENTAL PARAMETERS (1956) (1047)
Asymptotic Minimax Character of the Sample Distribution Function and of the Classical Multinomial Estimator (1956) (955)
The Equivalence of Two Extremum Problems (1960) (841)
On a Test Whether Two Samples are from the Same Population (1940) (821)
Optimum Designs in Regression Problems (1959) (784)
Products of indecomposable, aperiodic, stochastic matrices (1963) (520)
Coding Theorems of Information Theory (1962) (463)
The rate distortion function for source coding with side information at the decoder (1979) (436)
An Exact Test for Randomness in the Non-Parametric Case Based on Serial Correlation (1943) (334)
Multiple Access Channels (1978) (331)
On the theory of queues with many servers (1955) (269)
The Minimum Distance Method (1957) (243)
Statistical Tests Based on Permutations of the Observations (1944) (234)
Tolerance Limits for a Normal Distribution (1946) (215)
On Tests of Normality and Other Tests of Goodness of Fit Based on Distance Methods (1955) (199)
Non-parametric Statistical Inference (1949) (188)
On the Characteristics of the General Queueing Process, with Applications to Random Walk (1956) (166)
Review: William Feller, An introduction to probability theory and its applications. Vol. I (1951) (158)
The coding of messages subject to chance errors (1957) (151)
Sequential Decision Problems for Processes with Continuous time Parameter. Testing Hypotheses (1953) (148)
Relations among certain ranges of vector measures (1951) (137)
Elimination of Randomization in Certain Statistical Decision Procedures and Zero-Sum Two-Person Games (1951) (128)
The Inventory Problem: II. Case of Unknown Distributions of Demand (1952) (121)
Probability and information theory II (1969) (118)
Simultaneous channels (1959) (118)
The Inventory Problem: I. Case of Known Distributions of Demand (1952) (114)
On the deviations of the empiric distribution function of vector chance variables (1958) (108)
Confidence Limits for Continuous Distribution Functions (1939) (107)
Distinguishability of Sets of Distributions (1958) (92)
Asymptotically minimax estimation of concave and convex distribution functions (1976) (90)
The Efficiency of Sequential Estimates and Wald's Equation for Sequential Processes (1947) (82)
Bayes Solutions of Sequential Decision Problems. (1949) (81)
Probability Theory for Statistical Methods. (1949) (81)
On Wald's Proof of the Consistency of the Maximum Likelihood Estimate (1949) (72)
Sequential Decision Problems for Processes with Continuous Time Parameter Problems of Estimation (1953) (66)
On the Theory of Runs with some Applications to Quality Control (1943) (65)
Estimation by the minimum distance method (1953) (63)
Additive Partition Functions and a Class of Statistical Hypotheses (1942) (62)
On the Optimal Character of the (s, S) Policy in Inventory Theory (1953) (62)
An upper bound on the rate distortion function for source coding with partial side information at the decoder (1979) (58)
Elimination of Randomization in Certain Problems of Statistics and of the Theory of Games. (1950) (58)
On the Stochastic Approximation Method of Robbins and Monro (1952) (58)
The Covariance Matrix of Runs Up and Down (1944) (57)
Channels with Arbitrarily Varying Channel Probability Functions (1962) (53)
Asymptotic Efficiency of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator (1965) (52)
Generalization of the Theorem of Glivenko-Cantelli (1954) (50)
Coding Theorems of Information Theory (1964) (48)
The capacity of a channel with arbitrarily varying channel probability functions and binary output alphabet (1970) (44)
On a Theorem of Hoel and Levine on Extrapolation Designs (1965) (44)
Asymptotic Distribution of Runs Up and Down (1944) (44)
Minimax Estimates of the Mean of a Normal Distribution with Known Variance (1950) (43)
Maximum probability estimators and related topics (1974) (42)
Optimum extrapolation and interpolation designs, I (1964) (41)
Maximum probability estimators (1967) (40)
Abraham Wald, 1902-1950 (1952) (40)
Note on Runs of Consecutive Elements (1944) (39)
Generalized Maximum Likelihood Estimators (1966) (38)
Two Methods of Randomization in Statistics and the Theory of Games (1951) (36)
The rate distortion function for source coding with side information at the decoder. II (1979) (36)
Bayes Solutions of Sequential Decision Problems (1950) (34)
Asymptotic Minimax Character of the Sample Distribution Function for Vector Chance Variables (1959) (33)
Notes on a General Strong Converse (1968) (32)
Sampling Inspection Plans for Continuous Production which Insure a Prescribed Limit on the Outgoing Quality (1945) (31)
Signalling over a Gaussian channel with feedback and autoregressive noise (1975) (28)
Correlated Decoding for Channels with Arbitrarily Varying Channel Probability Functions (1969) (27)
Memory Increases Capacity (1967) (27)
On Sequential Binomial Estimation (1946) (26)
On a Limit Theorem in Renewal Theory (1952) (24)
Estimation of a density function at a point (1967) (23)
Asymptotically efficient non-parametric estimators of location and scale parameters. II (1970) (22)
CONTRIBUTIONS TO INFORMATION THEORY. (1960) (21)
On Stochastic Approximation Methods (1956) (21)
Sums of random integers reduced modulo $m$ (1951) (21)
Estimation by the Minimum Distance Method in Nonparametric Stochastic Difference Equations (1954) (20)
The structure of capacity functions for compound channels (1969) (19)
Characterization of the Minimal Complete Class of Decision Functions When the Number of Distributions and Decisions Is Finite (1951) (19)
Maximum probability estimators and asymptotic sufficiency (1970) (17)
Strong converse of the coding theorem for semicontinuous channels (1959) (16)
ESTIMATION OF THE COMPONENTS OF STOCHASTIC STRUCTURES. (1954) (15)
On Channels without a Capacity (1963) (15)
Approximation with a fidelity criterion (1967) (15)
The Power of the Classical Tests Associated with the Normal Distribution (1949) (15)
A Note on the Strong Converse of the Coding Theorem for the General Discrete Finite-Memory Channel (1960) (14)
Bayesian Inference and Axioms of Consistent Decision (1962) (14)
Maximum probability estimators with a general loss function (1969) (14)
Channels without synchronization (1971) (14)
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a Translation Parameter of a Truncated Distribution (1973) (13)
The Method of Maximum Likelihood and the Wald Theory of Decision Functions (1953) (13)
Remark on the Optimum Character of the Sequential Probability Ratio Test (1966) (12)
Information Theory for Mathematicians (1958) (11)
The maximum achievable length of an error correcting code (1958) (11)
Note on Confidence Limits for Continuous Distribution Functions (1941) (10)
Optimum extrapolation and interpolation designs II (1964) (10)
Generalized Maximum Likelihood Estimators in a Particular Case (1968) (10)
Asymptotically efficient non-parametric estimators of location and scale parameters (1970) (9)
Remarks on the notion of recurrence (1949) (9)
Sequential tests of hypotheses about the mean occurrence time of a continuous parameter poisson process (1956) (9)
Confidence Limits for the Fraction of a Normal Population which Lies Between Two Given Limits (1946) (9)
The moments of recurrence time (1967) (8)
Degraded Broadcast Channels (1978) (8)
Note on the Gaussian Channel with Feedback and a Power Constraint (1968) (8)
Sequential Analysis of Statistical Data: Applications. (1946) (8)
ASYMPTOTICALLY MINIMAX ESTIMATION OF CONCAVE AND CONVEX DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS. II (1977) (7)
Asymptotically minimax tests of composite hypotheses (1969) (7)
On $\epsilon$-Complete Classes of Decision Functions (1951) (7)
Review: D. Blackwell and M. A. Girshick, Theory of games and statistical decisions (1955) (6)
Consistency of Sequential Binomial Estimates (1947) (6)
An upper bound on the rate of transmission of messages (1958) (6)
The distribution of plane angles of contact (1949) (5)
Maximum Probability Estimators in the Classical Case and in the “Almost Smooth” Case (1976) (4)
An Asymptotically Efficient, Sequential Equivalent of the T‐Test (1972) (4)
A Channel with Infinite Memory (1961) (3)
Existence of optimal stopping rules for linear and quadratic rewards (1966) (3)
Review: J. C. C. McKinsey, Introduction to the theory of games (1953) (3)
Optimal, fixed length, nonparametric sequential confidence limits for a translation parameter (1972) (2)
The maximum likelihood estimator (1974) (1)
The maximum probability estimator (1974) (1)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF PROGRESS IN INFORMATION THEORY (1968) (1)
Review: T. C. Koopmans, Activity analysis of production and allocation (1952) (1)
Review: M. Dresher, A. W. Tucker and P. Wolfe, Contributions to the theory of games, vol. III (1959) (1)
Efficiency of maximum likelihood estimators (1974) (1)
Correction Notes: Corrections to "Sequential Decision Problems for Processes with Continuous Time Parameter-Testing Hypothesis" (1959) (1)
ASYMPTOTICALLY EFFICIENT ESTIMATION OF NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION COEFFICIENTS (1971) (1)
Statistical Methods for Natural Scientists, Medical Men, and Engineers. (1952) (1)
On Coding Theorems for General Simultaneous Channels (1960) (1)
Review: Robert Ash, Information Theory (1967) (0)
Purpose of this monograph (1974) (0)
On a problem connected with the Vandermonde determinant (1965) (0)
The Semi-Continuous Memoryless Channel (1961) (0)
Final Summary Rept. Scientific Research and Scientific Personnel of the Industrial and Management Engineering Department of Columbia University (1965) (0)
Continuous Channels with Additive Gaussian Noise (1964) (0)
Source Coding and Rate Distortion (1978) (0)
Group Codes. Sequential Decoding (1964) (0)
Fundamentals of Rate Distortion Theory (1978) (0)
Asymptotically efficient estimators when the densities of the observations have discontinuities (1976) (0)
The Uses of Statistics: Research Papers in Statistics . F. N. David, Ed. Wiley, New York, 1966. 476 pp., illus. $16.75. (1967) (0)
Review: H. W. Kuhn and A. W. Tucker, Contributions to the theory of games. Vol. 2 (1951) (0)
Discrete Channels with a Past History (1961) (0)
The Discrete Finite-Memory Channel (1964) (0)
Review: A. W. Tucker and R. D. Luce, Contributions to the theory of games, Vol. 4 (1959) (0)
Book Review: contributions to the theory of games (1959) (0)
The Discrete Memoryless Channel (1961) (0)
RESEARCH IN STATISTICS, INFORMATION THEORY, AND ANALYSIS. (1968) (0)
General Discrete Channels (1978) (0)
Codes within codes (1979) (0)
Asymptotic behavior of the likelihood function. Asymptotically sufficient statistics (1974) (0)
Coding of correlated sources with prescribed distortion by separated encoders. (1980) (0)
Probability and information theory : proceedings of the International Symposium at McMaster University, Canada, April, 1968 (1969) (0)
Conditional Confidence Statements and Confidence Estimators: Comment (1977) (0)
Corrections to “Sequential Decision Problems for Processes with Continuous Time Parameter. Testing Hypotheses” (1985) (0)
Note on Asymptotic Efficiency of M.L. Estimators in Nonparametric Problems (1985) (0)
Heuristic Introduction to the Discrete Memoryless Channel (1964) (0)
Book Review: An introduction to probability theory and its applications, Vol. I (1951) (0)

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