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Also Known As David Harold Blackwell
Born April 24, 1919 • Centralia • Illinois
Died July 8, 2010 (aged 91) • Berkeley • California
Notable Works “Theory of Games and Statistical Decisions”
Subjects Of Study Bayesian analysis • game theory • information theory • probability theory

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