Stephen Stigler
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Stephen Mack Stigler is Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago[1].
Stigler received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation was on Linear Functions of Order Statistics, and his advisor was Lucien Le Cam.
Stigler taught at University of Wisconsin-Madison until 1979 when he joined the University of Chicago, where he is currently the chairman of the statistics department. In 2006 he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society.
His research has focused on statistical theory of robust estimators and the history of statistics.
His father was the economist George Stigler, and he has recently written on Milton Friedman, who was a friend of his father.
[edit] Books
- The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900. ISBN 0-674-40340-1
- Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods. ISBN 0-674-83601-4
[edit] See also
- Stigler's law of eponymy
- George Stigler, his father.
