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Ronald L. Iman

American statistician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ7365041 ↗
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Ronald L. Iman is an American statistician. He was one of the developers of the statistical technique known as Latin hypercube sampling.

In 1991 Iman was awarded the American Statistical Association's Founders Award. He was president of the American Statistical Association in 1994.

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