Arthur P. Dempster
American mathematician, born 1929 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Arthur Pentland Dempster (born 1929) is a Professor Emeritus in the Harvard University Department of Statistics. He was one of four faculty when the department was founded in 1957.[3]
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Arthur P. Dempster | |
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Born | 1929 (age 94–95) |
Alma mater | Princeton University (PhD 1956) University of Toronto (BA 1952; MA 1953) |
Known for | Dempster–Shafer theory, EM algorithm |
Awards | Putnam Fellow (1951) ASA Fellow (1964) [1] IMS Fellow (1963) [2] Guggenheim Fellow AAAS Fellow (1997) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | Harvard University |
Thesis | The two-sample multivariate problem in the degenerate case (1956) |
Doctoral advisor | John Tukey |
Doctoral students | Augustine Kong Nan Laird |
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