A Conversation with Charles Stein
1986; Institute of Mathematical Statistics; Volume: 1; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1214/ss/1177013517
ISSN2168-8745
Autores Tópico(s)Census and Population Estimation
ResumoCharles Stein was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 22, 1920, and received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1940. His graduate studies at Chicago were interrupted by the Second World War, and he served in the U. S. Army Air Force from 1942-1946, attaining the rank of Captain. He received a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from Columbia University in 1947 and joined the faculty of the Statistical Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, where he remained for the following two years. He was a National Research Council Fellow at the Institut Henri Poincare in Paris during 1949-1950, and an Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Chicago from 1951-1953. Since 1953 he has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Statistics at Stanford University, where he is now Professor of Statistics. The following conversation took place in his office one afternoon in October 1984.
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