Statistical Institute at Calcutta and was to attend the Indian Science Congress at Bangalore in January. Their two children were back at home in the United States. After his death, Wald was criticized by Sir Ronald A. Fisher FRS. Fisher attacked Wald for being a mathematician without scientific experience who had written an incompetent book on statistics. Fisher particularly criticized Wald's work on the design of experiments and alleged ignorance of the basic ideas of the subject, as set out by Fisher and Frank Yates. Wald's work was defended by Jerzy Neyman the next year. Neyman explained Wald's work, particularly with respect to the design of experiments. Lucien Le Cam credits him in his own book, Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Decision Theory: "The ideas and techniques used reflect first and foremost the influence of Abraham Wald's writings." He was the father of the noted American physicist Robert Wald. Notable publications For a complete list, see References Further reading External links 1902 births 1950 deaths Scientists from Cluj-Napoca Austro-Hungarian Jews Jewish emigrants from Austria to the United States after the Anschluss Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellows of the American Statistical Association American statisticians Hungarian statisticians Econometricians 20th-century American mathematicians Columbia University faculty Jewish American scientists Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in India 20th-century Hungarian mathematicians Babeș-Bolyai University alumni University of Vienna alumni Mathematical economists Hungarian operations researchers Functional analysts American operations researchers 20th-century Hungarian economists Fellows of the Econometric Society Mathematical statisticians