Stephen Stigler
{{short description|American statistician}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1941|8|10}}
| birth_place = Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
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| fields = Robust statistics
| workplaces = {{nowrap|University of Wisconsin–Madison}}
University of Chicago
{{nowrap|Institute of Mathematical Statistics}}
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| alma_mater = Carleton College (BA)
{{nowrap|University of California, Berkeley (PhD)}}
| thesis_title = Linear Functions of Order Statistics
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| thesis_year = 1967
| doctoral_advisor = Lucien Le Cam
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| doctoral_students = Lee-Jen Wei
Alan Agresti
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| known_for = Stigler's law of eponymy
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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.Catherine Behan (May 28, 1998) [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/980528/stigler.shtml 1998 Quantrell Award: Stephen Stigler] University of Chicago Chronicle. 17(17). 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.
Biography
Stigler was born in Minneapolis.{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Q80AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Stigler,+stephen+mack%22+1941 |title = Reports of the President and the Treasurer - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|last1 = Foundation|first1 = John Simon Guggenheim Memorial|year = 1976}} He received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation was on linear functions of order statistics, and his advisor was Lucien Le Cam. His research has focused on statistical theory of robust estimators and the history of statistics.
Stigler taught at University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1979 when he joined the University of Chicago. In 2006, he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society,{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Stephen+M.+Stigler&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-05-24|website=search.amphilsoc.org}} and is a past president (1994) of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
His father was the economist George Stigler, who was a close friend of Milton Friedman.
Bibliography
= Books =
- {{cite book | title= The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofstatist00stig| url-access=registration| publisher= Harvard University Press| location=Cambridge, MA | year= 1986| isbn= 978-0-6744-0341-3}}
- {{cite book | title= Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods | publisher= Harvard University Press| location=Cambridge, MA | year= 1999 | isbn= 978-0-6740-0979-0}}
- {{cite book | title= The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom | publisher= Harvard University Press| location=Cambridge, MA | year= 2016 | isbn= 978-0-6740-8891-7}}
- {{cite book | title= Casanova's Lottery: The History of a Revolutionary Game of Chance | publisher= University of Chicago Press| location=Chicago | year= 2022 | isbn= 9780226820781}}
; As editor
- {{cite book | author= Stigler, S. M. | title= American Contributions to Mathematical Statistics in the Nineteenth Century (2 Vols.) | publisher= Arno Press | location= New York | year= 1980 | isbn= 978-0-4051-2590-4}}
- {{cite book | author1= Stigler, S. M. | author2= Wong, W. H. | author3= Xu, D. | title= R. R. Bahadur's Lectures on the Theory of Estimation (Lecture Notes-Regional Monograph Series, Vol. 39) | publisher= Institute for Mathematical Statistics | location= Beachwood, OH | year= 2002 | isbn= 978-0-9406-0053-9}}
= Selected articles =
- ——— {{cite journal
|title=The application of the method of least squares to the interpolation of sequences (translated by Ralph St. John and S. M. Stigler)
|author=Gergonne, J. D.
|journal=Historia Mathematica
|volume=1
|issue=4
|year=1974 |orig-year=1815
|pages=439–47
|editor=Ralph St. John and S. M. Stigler
|edition=translated by Ralph St. John and S. M. Stigler from the 1815 French
|doi=10.1016/0315-0860(74)90034-2
|author-link=Joseph Diaz Gergonne
|doi-access=
}}
- ——— {{cite journal
|title=Gergonne's 1815 paper on the design and analysis of polynomial regression experiments
|author=Stigler, Stephen M.
|journal=Historia Mathematica
|volume=1
|issue=4
|year=1974
|pages=431–39
|doi=10.1016/0315-0860(74)90033-0
|doi-access=
}}
- ——— {{cite journal
|last=Stigler
|first=Stephen M.
|title=Mathematical statistics in the early States
|journal=Annals of Statistics
|date=March 1978
|volume=6
|pages=239–65
|doi=10.1214/aos/1176344123
|jstor=2958876
|mr=483118
|issue=2|doi-access=free
}}
- {{cite book
|author-link=Stephen M. Stigler
|last=Stigler
|first=Stephen M.
|chapter=Mathematical Statistics in the Early States
|editor=Stephen M. Stigler
|title=American Contributions to Mathematical Statistics in the Nineteenth Century, Volumes I & II
|volume=I
|publisher=Arno Press
|location=New York
|year=1980}}
- {{cite book
|author-link=Stephen M. Stigler
|last=Stigler
|first=Stephen M.
|chapter=Mathematical Statistics in the Early States
|editor=Peter Duren
|title=A Century of Mathematics in America
|volume=III
|publisher=American Mathematical Society
|location=Providence, RI
|year=1989
|pages=537–64}}
- ——— {{cite journal
| doi = 10.2307/2344804
| last = Stigler | first = Stephen M. | author-link = Stephen M. Stigler
| title = Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, statistician
| year = 1978
| journal = Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A
| volume = 141 | issue = 3
| pages = 287–322
| jstor = 2344804
}}
- ——— Stigler, S. M. (1980). Stigler's law of eponymy. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 39: 147–58 (Merton Festschrift Volume, F. Gieryn (ed))
- ——— {{cite journal|last=Stigler|first=Stephen M.|date=November 1983|title=Who discovered Bayes's theorem?|journal=The American Statistician|volume=37|issue=4|pages=290–96|jstor=2682766|id=Republished in Statistics on the table ()|doi=10.2307/2682766|mr=1712969|author-link=Stephen Stigler}}
- ——— {{cite journal|doi=10.1086/444032|author=Stephen M. Stigler|title=A Historical View of Statistical Concepts in Psychology and Educational Research| journal=American Journal of Education| volume=101|issue=1|date=November 1992|pages=60–70|s2cid=143685203}}
See also
References
External links
- [https://galton.uchicago.edu/~stigler/SSCV2015Web.pdf Official CV of Stephen M. Stigler (September 2015)]
- [http://www.stat.uchicago.edu/faculty/stigler.shtml Homepage at the University of Chicago] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130428040142/http://www.stat.uchicago.edu/faculty/stigler.shtml |date=2013-04-28 }}
- [http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/ Mathematics Genealogy Project: Stephen Mack Stigler]
- {{Internet Archive author |sname= Stephen Mack Stigler }}
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