Stephen Stigler
Stephen M. Stigler | |
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| Born | August 10, 1941 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Carleton College (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Known for | Stigler's law of eponymy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Robust statistics |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Chicago Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
| Thesis | Linear Functions of Order Statistics (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lucien Le Cam |
| Doctoral students | Lee-Jen Wei Alan Agresti |
| Website | www |
Stephen Mack Stigler (born August 10, 1941) is the Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago. He has authored several books on the history of statistics; he is the son of the economist George Stigler.
Stigler is also known for Stigler's law of eponymy which states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer – whose first formulation he credits to sociologist Robert K. Merton.