Pascal Massart (born 23 January 1958) is a French Statistician. His work focuses on probability and statistics, notably the

Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality In the theory of probability and statistics, the Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz–Massart inequality (DKW inequality) bounds how close an empirically determined distribution function will be to the distribution function from which the empirical ...

, the Bousquet inequality, the

concentration inequality In probability theory, concentration inequalities provide bounds on how a random variable deviates from some value (typically, its expected value). The law of large numbers of classical probability theory states that sums of independent random vari ...

, and the Efron-Stein inequality. With Lucien Birgé he worked on model selection. He received his Ph.D. in statistics from

Paris-Sud University Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, in ...

under Jean Bretagnolle. He has worked at the University of Paris-Sud and at the

University of Lyon The University of Lyon (french: Université de Lyon), located in Lyon and Saint-Étienne, France, is a center for higher education and research comprising 11 members and 24 associated institutions. The three main universities in this center are: ...

Honors and awards

He was awarded the

COPSS Presidents' Award The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a young statistician in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. The COPSS Presidents' Award is generally ...

in 1998. He was awarded the Prix Pierre-Simon de Laplace from the French Statistical Society in 2007 alongside

Paul Deheuvels Paul Deheuvels (born 11 March 1948 in Istanbul) is a French statistician. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Career Paul Deheuvels is the son of René Deheuvels. Normalien (class of 1967), agrégé de mathématiques (1969), d ...

. He was a lecturer at the

European Congress of Mathematics The European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) is the second largest international conference of the mathematics community, after the International Congresses of Mathematicians (ICM). The ECM are held every four years and are timed precisely betwee ...

in 2004 in Stockholm.

Books

* ''Concentration Inequalities: A Nonasymptotic Theory of Independence'' (2013) * ''Concentration Inequalities and Model Selection'' (2003)

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Massart, Pascal Living people French statisticians 1958 births Paris-Sud University alumni Academic staff of Paris-Sud University