Institutions Harvard University Doctoral advisor Samuel Karlin | Name John Pratt Alma mater Stanford University | |
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Thesis Some Results in the Decision Theory of One-Parameter Multivariate Polya-Type Distributions (1956) Education Stanford University (1955–1956) Books Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory, Concepts of Nonparametric Theory Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada Similar People Richard Zeckhauser, Robert Schlaifer, Howard Raiffa | ||
Doctoral students Michael R. Powers | ||
John w pratt dividing the indivisible using simple symmetry to partition variance explained
John Winsor Pratt (born 1931) is Emeritus William Ziegler professor business administration at Harvard University. He has made contributions to research in risk aversion theory, notably with Kenneth Arrow on measures of risk aversion.
In 1962 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
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