Donald Richards (statistician)

{{short description|Jamaican statistician}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Donald St. P. Richards

| birth_place = Mandeville, Jamaica

| alma_mater = University of the West Indies

| field = Statistics, Probability

| prizes = Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1999
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013

| work_institution = Pennsylvania State University
University of Virginia
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of the West Indies

}}

Donald St. P. Richards (born 1955, in Mandeville, Jamaica) is an American statistician conducting research on multivariate statistics, zonal polynomials, distance correlation, total positivity, and hypergeometric functions of matrix argument. He currently serves as a distinguished professor{{cite web|url=https://www.psu.edu/news/academics/story/richards-named-distinguished-professor-statistics/|title=Richards named distinguished professor of statistics

|website=psu.edu|accessdate=25 Jan 2023}} of statistics at the Pennsylvania State University,{{cite web|url=http://dlmf.nist.gov/about/bio/DSPRichards|title=DLMF: Donald St. P. Richards|website=dlmf.nist.gov|accessdate=16 July 2018}} and is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics{{cite web|url=https://www.imstat.org/honored-ims-fellows/|title=Honored IMS Fellows|website=imstat.org|accessdate=16 July 2018}} and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.{{cite web|url=http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list|title=List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society|accessdate=16 July 2018|website=ams.org}}

Richards obtained his PhD in 1978 at the University of the West Indies, where the statistician Rameshwar D. Gupta was his doctoral advisor.{{mathgenealogy|id=16267}}

In 1999, he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[https://imstat.org/honored-ims-fellows/]. Retrieved 29 December 2022.

In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society]. Retrieved 16 July 2018.