Dean Isaacson
{{Short description|American statistician (born 1941)}}
Dean Leroy Isaacson (born 1941) is an American statistician.
Academic career
After graduating from Milaca High School in Milaca, Minnesota, Isaacson earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at Macalester College, then completed his master's and doctorate at University of Minnesota.{{cite news |title=Dean L. Isaacson |url=https://www.milaca.k12.mn.us/page/3198/20 |access-date=23 June 2024 |publisher=Milaca High School}} He joined the Iowa State University faculty in 1968, and served as chair of the Department of Statistics from 1984 to 2002,{{cite news |title=Receptions: Dean Isaacson |url=https://archive.inside.iastate.edu/2002/0419/receptions.shtml |access-date=23 June 2024 |publisher=Iowa State University |date=19 May 2002}} when he was succeeded in the role by Kenneth Koehler.{{cite news |title=KOEHLER WILL DIRECT IOWA STATE'S STATISTICS DEPARTMENT |url=https://www.news.iastate.edu/oldreleases/2002/nov/koehler.shtml |access-date=23 June 2024 |publisher=Iowa State University |date=6 November 2002}}{{cite news |title=Koehler Named Interim Chair of Department of Statistics |url=https://www.cals.iastate.edu/news/2002/koehler-named-interim-chair-department-statistics |access-date=23 June 2024 |publisher=Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences |date=5 November 2002}} Isaacson was granted emeritus status upon retirement in 2009.{{cite news |title=Dean L Isaacson |url=https://www.stat.iastate.edu/people/dean-isaacson |access-date=23 June 2024 |publisher=Iowa State University Department of Statistics}}{{cite news |last1=Krapfl |first1=Anne |title=Honoring a previous leader |url=https://archive.inside.iastate.edu/2009/0514/snedecor.shtml |access-date=23 June 2024 |publisher=Iowa State University |date=14 May 2009}}
Honors
Isaacson is a 1994 fellow of the American Statistical Association.{{cite news |title=ASA Fellows |url=https://ww2.amstat.org/fellows/ |access-date=23 June 2024 |publisher=American Statistical Association}} In 2013, he was elected to the Milaca High School Hall of Fame.{{cite news |title=Isaacson, DeHart to join hall of famers |url=https://www.hometownsource.com/union_times/news/local/isaacson-dehart-to-join-hall-of-famers/article_41552a22-313b-5a1f-8fc8-31ef052f9270.html |access-date=23 June 2024 |work=Union-Times |date=5 September 2013}}
Selected books
- {{cite book |last1=Isaacson |first1=Dean L. |last2=Madsen |first2=Richard W. |title=Markov Chains: Theory and Applications |date=1976 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=9780471428626}}Reviews of Markov Chains: Theory and Applications include:
- {{cite journal |last1=Karr |first1=Alan F. |title=Markov Chains: Theory and Applications (Dean L. Isaacson and Richard W. Madsen) |journal=SIAM Review |date=July 1978 |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=606–607 |doi=10.1137/1020086}} {{ProQuest|926182037}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Bartholomew |first1=D. J. |title=Markov Chains: Theory and Applications. By D. L. Isaacson and R. W. Madsen. New York and London, Wiley, 1976. x, 256 p. 24·5 cm. £14·55. |journal=Royal Statistical Society. Journal. Series A: General |date=March 1977 |volume=140 |issue=2 |pages=244–245 |doi=10.2307/2344895|jstor=2344895 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Unwin |first1=Anthony |title=Markov Chains — Theory and Applications |journal=Journal of the Operational Research Society |date=1977 |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=236–237|doi=10.1057/jors.1977.44 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=McGinnis |first1=Robert |title=Reviewed Work: Markov Chains Theory and Applications. by Dean L. Isaacson, Richard W. Madsen |journal=Contemporary Sociology |date=May 1977 |volume=6 |issue=3 |doi=10.2307/2064802 |jstor=2064802 |s2cid=117130350}}
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Category:American statisticians
Category:Macalester College alumni
Category:University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni
Category:Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Category:Iowa State University faculty
Category:Mathematicians from Minnesota