Arthur P. Dempster
Arthur P. Dempster | |
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Dempster at a workshop in Brest, France, 2010 | |
| Born | 1929 (age 95–96) |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (PhD 1956) University of Toronto (BA 1952; MA 1953) |
| Known for | Dempster–Shafer theory, EM algorithm |
| Awards | Putnam Fellow (1951) ASA Fellow (1964) IMS Fellow (1963) Guggenheim Fellow AAAS Fellow (1997) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Thesis | The two-sample multivariate problem in the degenerate case (1956) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Tukey |
| Doctoral students | Augustine Kong Nan Laird |
Arthur Pentland Dempster (born 1929) is a Professor Emeritus in the Harvard University Department of Statistics. He was one of four faculty when the department was founded in 1957.