- Stephen Stigler
Stephen Mack Stigler is Ernest DeWitt Burton
Distinguished Service Professor at the Department ofStatistics of theUniversity of Chicago [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/980528/stigler.shtml] .Stigler received his Ph.D. in
1967 from theUniversity of California, Berkeley . His dissertation was onLinear Functions of Order Statistics , and his advisor wasLucien Le Cam .Stigler taught at
University of Wisconsin-Madison until1979 when he joined the University of Chicago, where he is currently the chairman of the statistics department. In2006 he was elected to membership of theAmerican Philosophical Society , and is a past president ofInstitute of Mathematical Statistics .His research has focused on statistical theory of robust estimators and the
history of statistics .His father was the
economist George Stigler , and he has recently written onMilton Friedman , who was a friend of his father.Books
* "The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900". ISBN 0-674-40340-1
* "Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods". ISBN 0-674-83601-4See also
*
Stigler's law of eponymy
*George Stigler , his father.External links
* [http://galton.uchicago.edu/faculty/stigler.html Homepage at the University of Chicago]
* [http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=34517 Mathematics Genealogy: Stephen Mack Stigler]
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