Arthur P. Dempster
Mathematician, Author
1929 –
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Who is Arthur P. Dempster?
Arthur Pentland Dempster is a Professor Emeritus in the Harvard University Department of Statistics. He was one of four faculty when the department was founded in 1957.
He was a Putnam Fellow in 1951. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1956. His thesis, titled The two-sample multivariate problem in the degenerate case, was written under the supervision of John Tukey.
Among his contributions to statistics are the Dempster–Shafer theory and the EM algorithm.
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- Born
- Jan 1, 1929
Toronto - Also known as
- Arthur Dempster
- Arthur Pentland Dempster
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Princeton University
Mathematical statistics
( - 1956)
- PhD, Princeton University
- Employment
- Harvard University
- Lived in
- Massachusetts
(1958 - )
- Massachusetts
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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