Moshe Shaked (February 21, 1945 - October 28, 2014) was an American

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and

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. He was a student at the

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 ...

and at the

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, where he completed his

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in 1975, under Albert W. Marshall. Shaked held various positions at the

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, the

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, and at

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universit ...

. He became a full professor of mathematics at the

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in 1986, and he was a Professor Emeritus at Arizona since 2013. Moshe Shaked was a Fellow of the

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. Shaked was a leading figure in

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and distribution theory. He published widely in

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and statistics. He became most celebrated internationally for his collection of influential papers on stochastic order and multivariate dependence. Shaked’s contribution also includes pioneering studies on stochastic convexity and on multivariate phase-type distributions, with important applications in reliability modelling and

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analysis. He made significant contributions to multivariate aging notions and multivariate life distributions, as well as to accelerated life tests (inference, non-parametric approach and goodness of fit). Moshe Shaked was born in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

to a Polish immigrant family. He was a knowledgeable ancient-coin enthusiast and a passionate museum-goer. His son,

Tal Shaked Tal Shaked is an American chess grandmaster who is best known for winning the World Junior Championship in 1997. Shaked learned the game at the age of seven, and developed his chess skills in the scholastic chess organizations of Tucson, Arizon ...

, is an American

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grandmaster.

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Moshe Shaked - Google Scholar CitationsMoshe Shaked, 1945–2014, IMS BulletinStochastic Orders in Reliability and Risk In Honor of Professor Moshe Shaked, Haijun Li and Xiaohu Li (Eds.), 2013, SpringerStochastic Orders, Moshe Shaked and George Shanthikumar, 2007, Springer
1945 births 2014 deaths People from Jerusalem American mathematicians American statisticians {{US-mathematician-stub