George Casella
{{Short description|American statistician}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1951|1|22|mf=y}}
| birth_place = The Bronx, New York City
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|06|17|1951|1|22|mf=y}}
| death_place = Gainesville, Florida
| nationality = American
| fields = Statistics
| workplaces = Rutgers University
Cornell University
University of Florida
| education = Fordham University
Purdue University
| thesis_title = Minimax Ridge Regression Estimation
| thesis_url = https://purdue-primo-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/vjfldl/PURDUE_ALMA21504396530001081
| thesis_year = 1977
| doctoral_advisor = Leon Jay Gleser{{MathGenealogy|id=41524}}
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George Casella (January 22, 1951 – June 17, 2012) was a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. He died from multiple myeloma.
Academic career
Casella completed his undergraduate education at Fordham University and graduate education at Purdue University. He served on the faculty of Rutgers University, Cornell University, and the University of Florida. His contributions focused on the area of statistics including Monte Carlo methods, model selection, and genomic analysis.{{Cite journal | journal = IMS Bulletin | date = Feb 27, 2013 | title = Obituary: George Casella, 1951-2012 | publisher = Institute of Mathematical Statistics | url = http://bulletin.imstat.org/2013/02/obituary-george-casella-1951-2012 | access-date = March 27, 2013 | archive-date = March 6, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130306225102/http://bulletin.imstat.org/2013/02/obituary-george-casella-1951-2012/ | url-status = dead }} He was particularly active in Bayesian and empirical Bayes methods, with works connecting with the Stein phenomenon, on assessing and accelerating the convergence of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, as in his Rao–Blackwellization technique,{{cite journal|last1=Casella|first1=G|title=Rao-Blackwellisation of sampling schemes|journal=Biometrika|volume=83|issue=1|year=1996|pages=81–94|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229100766|doi=10.1093/biomet/83.1.81|jstor=2337434}} and recasting lasso as Bayesian posterior mode estimation with independent Laplace priors.{{cite journal|last1=Park|first1=Trevor|last2=Casella|first2=George|title=The Bayesian Lasso|journal=Journal of the American Statistical Association|volume=103|issue=482|year=2008|pages=681–686|doi=10.1198/016214508000000337|s2cid=11797924|url=http://www.stat.ufl.edu/archived/casella/Papers/Lasso.pdf|access-date=2014-11-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205024436/http://www.stat.ufl.edu/archived/casella/Papers/Lasso.pdf|archive-date=2018-02-05|url-status=dead}}
Awards
Casella was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1988, and he was made an Elected Fellow of the International Statistical Institute in 1989. In 2009, he was made a Foreign Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.{{cite web|last=Casella|first=George|title=VITA|url=http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~casella/Vita11.pdf|accessdate=4 November 2012}}
Selected bibliography
- {{cite book | year = 1998 |author1= Casella, George |author2=Lehmann, E. L. |author2-link=Erich Leo Lehmann | title = Theory of point estimation | publisher = Springer | location = Berlin | isbn = 0-387-98502-6}}
- {{cite book | year = 2002 |author1=Lee Berger, Roger |author-link=Roger Lee Berger |author2=Casella, George | title = Statistical inference | publisher = Thomson Learning | location = Stamford, Connecticut | isbn = 0-534-24312-6}}
- {{cite book | year = 2004 |author1=Casella, George |author2=Robert, Christian P. | title = Monte Carlo statistical methods | url = https://archive.org/details/springer_10.1007-978-1-4757-4145-2 | publisher = Springer | location = Berlin | isbn = 0-387-21239-6}}
- {{cite book | year = 2006 |author1= McCulloch, Charles E. |author2=Shayle R. Searle |author2-link=Shayle R. Searle |author3=Casella, George | title = Variance components | publisher = Wiley-Interscience | location = New York | isbn = 0-470-00959-4}}
- {{cite book | year = 2008 | author = Casella, George | title = Statistical design | publisher = Springer | location = Berlin | isbn = 978-0-387-75965-4}}
- {{cite book | year = 2009 |author1=Casella, George |author2=Robert, Christian P. | title = Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R (Use R) | publisher = Springer | location = Berlin | isbn = 978-1-4419-1575-7}}
- {{cite book | year = 2010 |author1=Casella, George |author2=Wu, Rongling |author3=Changxing Ma | title = Statistical Genetics of Quantitative Traits: Linkage, Maps and QTL (Statistics for Biology and Health) | publisher = Springer | location = Berlin | isbn = 978-1-4419-1912-0}}
References
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External links
- {{cite web|title=George Casella Home Page|url=http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~casella/|accessdate=4 November 2012}}
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Category:Deaths from multiple myeloma in the United States
Category:Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Category:University of Florida faculty
Category:Fordham University alumni
Category:Purdue University alumni
Category:Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Category:Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
Category:Cornell University faculty
Category:The Bronx High School of Science alumni
Category:Computational statisticians
Category:American mathematical statisticians
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