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David Oliver Siegmund (born November 15, 1941) is an American
statistician
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It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, and statisticians may wor ...
who has worked extensively on
sequential analysis.
[Biography of David O. Siegmund]
David Appell, ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'' 101, #21 (May 25, 2004), pp. 7843–7844, .
Biography
Siegmund grew up in
Webster Groves,
Missouri. He received his
baccalaureate degree, in mathematics, from
Southern Methodist University in 1963, and a
doctorate in statistics from
Columbia University in 1966. His Ph.D. advisor was
Herbert Robbins. After being an assistant and then a full professor at Columbia, he went to
Stanford University
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in 1976, where he is currently a professor of statistics. He has served twice as the chair of Stanford's statistics department.
[David O. Siegmund]
home page at Stanford University. Accessed on line September 17, 2010. He has also held visiting positions at
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
, the
University of Zurich, the
University of Oxford, and the
University of Cambridge.
Work
Siegmund has written with
Herbert Robbins and
Yuan-Shih Chow on the theory of
optimal stopping. Much of his work has been on
sequential analysis, and he has also worked on the statistics of gene mapping.
Awards and honors
*
Guggenheim Fellowship
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(1974)
*
Humboldt Prize (1980)
* Elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994)
* Invited Speaker of the
International Congress of Mathematicians
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The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...
(1998)
* Elected to the
National Academy of Sciences
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(2002)
Selected publications
* (with Y. S. Chow and H. Robbins) ''Great Expectations: The Theory of Optimal Stopping'', Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.
* (with Rupert Miller
Maximally Selected Chi Square Statistics ''Biometrics'', 38, #4 (December 1982), pp. 1011–1016.
* ''Sequential Analysis: Tests and Confidence Intervals'', New York: Springer, 1985, .
* (with John D. Storey and Jonathan E. Taylor) Strong control, conservative point estimation and simultaneous conservative consistency of false discovery rates: a unified approach, ''
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B'' 66, #1 (February 2004), pp. 187–205, .
References
External links
David O. Siegmund home page at Stanford
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1941 births
American statisticians
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics