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Charles J. Stone
Charles "Chuck" Joel Stone (July 13, 1936 – April 16, 2019) was an American statistician and mathematician. Early life Charles Joel Stone was born and raised in Los Angeles. After secondary school at North Hollywood High School, Stone graduated with a Bachelor of Science in science from the California Institute of Technology in 1958. He then matriculated at Stanford University, where in 1961 he received his Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in statistics. His PhD thesis ''Limit Theorems for Birth and Death Processes and Diffusion Processes'' was supervised by Samuel Karlin. Career From 1962 to 1964 Stone was an assistant professor in the mathematics department of Cornell University. From 1964 1981 to he was a faculty member of the mathematics department of UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), where he worked extensively with Leo Breiman (who moved to Berkeley in 1980) and Sidney Charles Port (born 1935). In the statistics department of the University of California, Berkeley, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
