Stephen Fienberg
Stephen Fienberg | |
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| Born | Stephen Elliott Fienberg 27 November 1942 |
| Died | 14 December 2016 (aged 74) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (PhD) University of Toronto (BSc) |
| Known for | Log-linear models, Contingency tables |
| Awards | COPSS Presidents' Award, R. A. Fisher Lectureship |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Thesis | The Estimation of Cell Probabilities in Two-Way Contingency Tables (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Frederick Mosteller |
| Doctoral students | |
| Other notable students | David Blei (postdoc) |
| External videos | |
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| “COPSS Awards and Fisher Lecture”, Amstat Videos, September 24, 2015 |
Stephen Elliott Fienberg (27 November 1942 – 14 December 2016) was a professor emeritus (formerly the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science) in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department, Heinz College, and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University. Fienberg was the founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application and of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.