Nationality American Role Statistician | Name David Siegmund | |
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Books Great Expectations: The Theory of Optimal Stopping People also search for Herbert Robbins, Yuan-Shih Chow, Hans-Georg Muller | ||
Ias distinguished lecture prof david siegmund 20 jun 2016
David Oliver Siegmund (born November 15, 1941) is an American statistician who has worked extensively on sequential analysis.
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- Ias distinguished lecture prof david siegmund 20 jun 2016
- Biography
- Work
- Awards and honors
- Selected publications
- References
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 in 1976, where he is currently a professor of statistics. He has served twice as the chair of Stanford's statistics department. He has also held visiting positions at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 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.