David Ross Brillinger (born 1937) is a statistician and

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at the

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. He received his PhD from Princeton in 1961 under

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. Brillinger's former doctoral students include Peter Guttorp,

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, Rafael Irizarry and Victor Panaretos.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brillinger, David Living people Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada 1937 births University of Toronto alumni Princeton University alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty Mathematical statisticians