Joseph "Jay" Born Kadane (born January 10, 1941) is the

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University Professor of Statistics, Emeritus in the Department of Statistics and

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. Kadane is one of the early proponents of

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, particularly the subjective Bayesian philosophy.

Education and career

Kadane was born in Washington, DC and raised in Freeport on Long Island, Kadane, prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy, earned an A.B. in mathematics from

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and a Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford in 1966, under the supervision of Professor

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. While in graduate school, Kadane worked for the

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(CNA). Upon finishing, he accepted a joint appointment at the

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statistics department and the

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. In 1968, he left Yale and served as an analyst at CNA for three years. In 1971, he moved to Pittsburgh to join

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at Carnegie Mellon University. He became the second tenured professor in the Department of Statistics. Kadane served as department head from 1972-1981 and steered the department to a balance between theoretical and applied work, advocating that statisticians should engage in joint research in substantive areas rather than acting as consultants.

Research

Kadane's contributions span a wide range of fields: econometrics, law, medicine, political science, sociology, computer science (see

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), archaeology, and environmental science, among others.Department of Statistics - Carnegie Mellon University
/ref> He has been elected as a Fellow of the

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, a fellow of the

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, a fellow of the

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, and a fellow of the

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. Kadane authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications and has served the statistical community in many capacities, including as editor of the

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from 1983-85.

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References

External links

*http://www.stat.cmu.edu/people/faculty/jay-kadane *http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~kadane 1941 births Living people American statisticians Bayesian statisticians Harvard College alumni Carnegie Mellon University faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association Stanford University alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Phillips Exeter Academy alumni People from Freeport, New York Mathematical statisticians Yale University faculty {{US-statistician-stub