"István Vincze (1912--1999) and his contribution to lattice path
combinatorics and statistics"
Endre Csáki
Summary: A brief account of the life and work of István Vincze,
a prominent Hungarian statistician is given. His contributions in various
topics are discussed. They include: empirical distribution;
Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics; information theory;
Cramér-Fréchet-Rao inequality; estimation of density; and a
characterization problem.
Keywords: Empirical distribution; power function; entropy;
Cramér-Fréchet-Rao inequality; density estimation; entire
function.
AMS 2000 subject classification: 60C05; 30D20; 60G50; 62B10; 62F10;
62G05; 62G30; 94A17.