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Bruce G. Lindsay
Bruce George Lindsay (March 7, 1947 – May 5, 2015) was an American statistician best known for his contributions to mixture modeling and Likelihood function, likelihood theory. Biography Lindsay was born in 1947 in The Dalles, Oregon. He has earned a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in mathematics from the University of Oregon in 1969 and a Ph.D. in biomathematics from the University of Washington in 1978. Between his undergraduate and graduate studies he has served in the U.S. Coast Guard for four years during the Vietnam War. He joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty in 1979, heading the Department of Statistics in 1998–2000 and 2006–2012 and rising to the rank of Eberly Chair in Statistics in 2012. He was also a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University in 1987, the Yale University in 1990, and North Carolina State University in 2004–2005. He was elected to be a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1987, of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Breslow
Norman Edward Breslow (February 21, 1941 – December 9, 2015) was an American statistician and medical researcher. At the time of his death, he was Professor (Emeritus) of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, of the University of Washington. He is co-author or author of hundreds of published works during 1967 to 2015. Among his many accomplishments is his work with co-author Nicholas Day that developed and popularized the use of case-control matched sample research designs, in the two-volume work ''Statistical Methods in Cancer Research''. This was with view that matched sample studies have a role within larger program of many types of studies, in making progress on a vast and important problem like cancer. Matched sample studies can quickly and cheaply test some hypothesized relationships, but their apparent findings are not definitive, and there's much they cannot accomplish. Their results, however, can inform the design of slow and expensive longitudinal large- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |