Name Morris DeGroot Role Statistician | Fields Statistics | |
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Doctoral students Kathryn ChalonerM. A. H. DempsterPrem Goel Notable awards ASA Fellow (1966) IMS Fellow AAAS Fellow Died November 2, 1989, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Institution Carnegie Mellon University Books Probability and statistics, Optimal statistical decisions, Student Solutions Manual fo | ||
Morris Herman DeGroot (June 8, 1931 – November 2, 1989) was an American statistician.
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Biography
Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, DeGroot graduated from Roosevelt University and earned master's and doctor's degrees from the University of Chicago. DeGroot joined Carnegie Mellon in 1957 and became a University Professor, the school's highest faculty position.
He was the founding editor of the review journal Statistical Science.
Academic works
He wrote six books, edited four volumes and authored over one hundred papers. Most of his research was on the theory of rational decision-making under uncertainty. His Optimal Statistical Decisions, published in 1970, is still recognized as one of the great books in the field. His courses on statistical decision theory taught at Carnegie-Mellon influenced Edward C. Prescott and Robert Lucas, Jr., influential figures in the development of new classical macroeconomics and real business-cycle theory. DeGroot's undergraduate text, Probability and Statistics, published in 1975, is widely recognized as a classic textbook.
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Awards and honors
DeGroot was elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the International Statistical Institute, the Econometric Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
ISBA's DeGroot Prize is named for him.