Chernoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Herman Chernoff applied mathematician, statistician and physicist ** Chernoff bound, also called Chernoff's inequality **

Chernoff face Chernoff faces, invented by applied mathematician, statistician and physicist Herman Chernoff in 1973, display multivariate data in the shape of a human face. The individual parts, such as eyes, ears, mouth and nose represent values of the variabl ...

Chernoff's distribution In probability theory, Chernoff's distribution, named after Herman Chernoff, is the probability distribution of the random variable : Z =\underset\ (W(s) - s^2), where ''W'' is a "two-sided" Wiener process (or two-sided "Brownian motion") satisf ...

Maxine Chernoff Maxine Chernoff (born 1952) is an American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor. Biography She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago. Chernoff is a professor and ...

* Mike Chernoff (disambiguation), two people *

Paul Chernoff Paul Robert Chernoff (21 June 1942, Philadelphia – 17 January 2017) was an American mathematician, specializing in functional analysis and the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics. He is known for Chernoff's Theorem, a mathematical re ...

(1942–2017), American mathematician

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