| Name Peter Bickel Role Statistician | Fields Statistics | |
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| Institutions University of California, Berkeley Alma mater University of California, Berkeley (PhD) Doctoral students Jianqing Fan C.F. Jeff Wu Other notable students Mark van der Laan Donald Andrews Notable awards COPSS Presidents' Award (1981), MacArthur Fellow Education University of California, Berkeley (1961–1963) Books Mathematical Statistics: Basic Ideas and Selected Topics, École d'été de probabilités de Saint-Flour IX-1979 Awards MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Similar People Erich Leo Lehmann, Jianqing Fan, Mark J van der Laan, David Donoho, Richard D Gill | ||
Doctoral advisor Erich Leo Lehmann | ||
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Peter John Bickel (born 1940) is an American statistician, Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, who is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences. He is past President of the Bernoulli Society and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
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He studied physics at the California Institute of Technology. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a Ph.D., in 1963, where he studied with Erich Leo Lehmann.
As a scientist and an educator, he has supervised and mentored many students and young researchers, many of whom later become leading figures in the fields of statistics and economics. These include C.F. Jeff Wu, Jianqing Fan, Mark van der Laan, Donald Andrews, etc.
He married Nancy Kramer in 1964; they have two children.