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American statistician
David Oliver Siegmund (born November 15, 1941)
[1] is an American
statistician who has worked extensively on
sequential analysis .
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Biography
Siegmund grew up in
Webster Groves ,
Missouri . He received his
baccalaureate degree, in mathematics, from
Southern Methodist University in 1963, and a
doctorate in statistics from
Columbia University in 1966. His Ph.D. advisor was
Herbert Robbins . After being an assistant and then a full professor at Columbia, he went to
Stanford University in 1976, where he is currently a professor of statistics. He has served twice as the chair of Stanford's statistics department.
[2]
[3] He has also held visiting positions at
Hebrew University of Jerusalem , the
University of Zurich , the
University of Oxford , and the
University of Cambridge .
[2]
Work
Siegmund has written with
Herbert Robbins and
Yuan-Shih Chow on the theory of
optimal stopping . Much of his work has been on
sequential analysis , and he has also worked on the statistics of gene mapping.
[2]
Awards and honors
Selected publications
(with Y. S. Chow and H. Robbins) Great Expectations: The Theory of Optimal Stopping , Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.
(with Rupert Miller)
Maximally Selected Chi Square Statistics , Biometrics , 38 , #4 (December 1982), pp. 1011–1016.
Sequential Analysis: Tests and Confidence Intervals , New York: Springer, 1985,
ISBN
0-387-96134-8 .
(with John D. Storey and Jonathan E. Taylor) Strong control, conservative point estimation and simultaneous conservative consistency of false discovery rates: a unified approach,
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society , Series B 66 , #1 (February 2004), pp. 187–205,
doi :
10.1111/j.1467-9868.2004.00439.x .
References
^ p. 114, Reports of the president and of the treasurer , John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1974.
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Biography of David O. Siegmund , David Appell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 , #21 (May 25, 2004), pp. 7843–7844,
doi :
10.1073/pnas.0402953101 .
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David O. Siegmund , home page at Stanford University. Accessed on line September 17, 2010.
^ Siegmund, David (1998).
"Genetic linkage analysis: An irregular statistical problem" . Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III . pp. 291–300.
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The 2023 Rao Prize Conference, the Department of Statistics, Penn State University
External links
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