Nationality Canadian Residence Canada Spouse Nancy Reid | Name Donald S. Fields Statistics, Mathematics | |
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Born April 29, 1925 (age 98) ( 1925-04-29 ) Thesis Generalized Hit Probabilities with a Gaussian Target (1949) Alma mater University of Toronto, Princeton University Awards R. A. Fisher Lectureship, Statistical Society of Canada Gold Medal Doctoral advisor Samuel S. Wilks, John Tukey | ||
Institutions University of Toronto | ||
Donald Alexander Stuart Fraser, O.C. (born April 29, 1925) is a Canadian statistician, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. In 2012 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada for his influence in the advancement of the statistical sciences in Canada. In 1961 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. In 2014 he was chosen as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to the theory and foundations of statistics, as well as for leadership and influence on the advancement of the statistical sciences."
Early life
Donald Fraser was born in Toronto, and raised in Stratford, Ontario. He attended St. Andrew's College in Aurora from 1939 to 1942, and the University of Toronto from 1942 to 1947, completing a bachelor's degree in mathematics, physics and chemistry. While at the University of Toronto he distinguished himself in the sciences, and especially in mathematics. He was a member of the first place team and a Putnam fellow in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition in 1946.