Lawrence D. Brown
Lawrence David Brown | |
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| Born | December 16, 1940 Los Angeles, US |
| Died | February 21, 2018 (aged 77) Philadelphia, US |
| Alma mater | Cornell University California Institute of Technology |
| Spouse | Linda Zhao |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of California at Berkeley Cornell University Rutgers University University of Pennsylvania |
| Doctoral advisor | Jack Kiefer |
| Doctoral students | Jim Berger T. Tony Cai Iain M. Johnstone Constantine Gatsonis |
Lawrence David (Larry) Brown (16 December 1940 – 21 February 2018) was Miers Busch Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for his groundbreaking work in a broad range of fields including decision theory, recurrence and partial differential equations, nonparametric function estimation, minimax and adaptation theory, and the analysis of census data and call-center data.