- Laurence Baxter
Laurence Alan Baxter (
28 February 1954 ,London -8 November 1996 ,Long Island ) was professor ofstatistics at theState University of New York at Stony Brook .Early life
Baxter was born in Bearstead Jewish Maternity Hospital,
Stoke Newington ; his family lived inIlford ,Essex . He was educated atUniversity College London .Career
His first job (1975-7) was at an insurance company. He then went to the
Central Electricity Generating Board , where he researched ways to predict the available generator capacity given the incidence of breakdowns and the time to repair generators. This work was accepted by UCL for a PhD in 1980.Baxter was then offered a temporary post as a lecturer at the
University of Delaware . The next year, he moved to theState University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY); he was granted tenure about ten years before his death.Baxter conceived the idea of and was Editor-in-Chief of the book series "Stochastic Modeling", published by
Chapman and Hall from 1993. He was an editorial board member for "Applied Probability Newsletter", "Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics", the "Journal of Mathematical Analysis and its Applications", "Naval Research Logistics" and the "International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management" [George Leitmann. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WK2-45KV29R-23&_user=10&_coverDate=06%2F15%2F1997&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=browse&_srch=doc-info(%23toc%236894%231997%23997899997%23304787%23FLT%23display%23Volume)&_cdi=6894&_sort=d&_docanchor=&_ct=29&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=546e47eeb574c703c596d159a0fbec3d "In Memoriam: Laurence Alan Baxter".] Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol. 210 (1997), no. 2, pp. 417-418] [ [http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/(SICI)1520-6750(199706)44:4%3CV::AID-NAV1%3E3.0.CO;2-A "In memoriam. Laurence Alan Baxter."] Naval Research Logistics, vol. 44 (1998), no. 4, pp. v-vi] [Obituary: "Laurence Alan Baxter (1954-1996)". The Institute of Mathematical Statistics Bulletin, vol. 26 (1997), no. 2, pp. 87-88.] .SUNY established the annual Laurence Baxter Memorial Lecture, which is now given each April at Stony Brook. [http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CEAS/amsweb.nsf/pages/Baxter]
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NAME=Baxter, Laurence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Statistician
DATE OF BIRTH=28 February, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH=Stoke Newington
DATE OF DEATH=8 November, 1996
PLACE OF DEATH=Long Island, NY
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