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{{Short description|American statistician (1942–2016)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1942|11|27|df=y}}
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| birth_place = Toronto, Canada
| birth_place = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| birth_name = Stephen Elliott Fienberg
| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|12|14|1942|11|27|df=y}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|12|14|1942|11|27|df=y}}
| death_place = Pittsburgh, PA
| death_place = {{nowrap|[[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]], U.S.}}
| nationality = [[Canada|Canadian]]
| fields = [[Statistics]]
| fields = [[Statistics]]
| workplaces = [[Carnegie Mellon University]]
| workplaces = [[Carnegie Mellon University]]
| alma_mater = [[Harvard University]]<br>[[University of Toronto]]
| alma_mater = [[Harvard University]] (PhD)<br/>[[University of Toronto]] (BSc)
| doctoral_advisor = [[Frederick Mosteller]] <!--(or | doctoral_advisors = )-->
| doctoral_advisor = [[Frederick Mosteller]]<ref name=mathgene/>
| doctoral_students =
| doctoral_students = {{Plainlist|
* [[Edoardo Airoldi]]
| known_for =
* [[Jana Asher]]
| awards =
* [[Elena Erosheva]]
* [[Aleksandra Slavković]]
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| notable_students = [[David Blei]] ([[Postdoctoral researcher|postdoc]])
| thesis_title = The Estimation of Cell Probabilities in Two-Way Contingency Tables
| thesis_url = http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/003851063/catalog
| thesis_year = 1968
| known_for = [[Log-linear model]]s, [[Contingency table]]s
| awards =[[COPSS Presidents' Award]], [[R. A. Fisher Lectureship]]
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'''Stephen Elliott Fienberg''' (27 November 1942 – 14 December 2016) was Professor Emeritus<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncrn.info/article/emeritus-celebration-steve-fienberg|title=Emeritus Celebration for Steve Fienberg {{!}} NSF-Census Research Network|website=www.ncrn.info|access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref> (formerly the Maurice Falk University Professor of [[Statistics]] and Social Science) in the Department of Statistics, the [[machine learning|Machine Learning]] Department, [[Heinz College]], and [[Cylab]] at [[Carnegie Mellon University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://stat.cmu.edu/people|title=CMU Statistics|website=stat.cmu.edu|access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref>
'''Stephen Elliott Fienberg''' (27 November 1942 – 14 December 2016) was a professor emeritus<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncrn.info/article/emeritus-celebration-steve-fienberg|title=Emeritus Celebration for Steve Fienberg|date=October 15, 2016 |website=NSF-Census Research Network |access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref> (formerly the Maurice Falk University Professor of [[Statistics]] and Social Science) in the Department of Statistics, the [[machine learning|Machine Learning]] Department, [[Heinz College]], and Cylab at [[Carnegie Mellon University]].<ref name="Erosheva">{{cite web |last1=Erosheva |first1=Elena |last2=Slavkovic |first2=Aleksandra |title=Obituary: Stephen E. Fienberg, 1942–2016 |url=https://imstat.org/2017/04/01/obituary-stephen-e-fienberg-1942-2016/ |website=Institute of Mathematical Statistics |access-date=28 October 2021|date= April 1, 2017 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Mejia"/>
Fienberg was the founding [[editor-in-chief|co-editor]] of the ''[[Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application]]''<ref name="ARSA"/> and of the ''[[Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality]]''.<ref name="ILR"/>


==Early life and education==
Born in Toronto, Canada, Fienberg earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics from the [[University of Toronto]] in 1964, an M.A. in Statistics in 1965, and a Ph.D. in Statistics in 1968 at [[Harvard University]]. He has been on the Carnegie Mellon University faculty since 1980, served as Dean of the [[Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences]], and became a U.S. citizen in 1998. He has authored more than 400 publications, including six books, has advised more than 30 Ph.D. students, and can claim more than 105 descendants in his mathematical genealogy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=58815|title=Stephen Fienberg - The Mathematics Genealogy Project|website=genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu|access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref>
Born in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Fienberg earned a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the [[University of Toronto]] in 1964, a [[Master of Arts]] degree in statistics in 1965, and a Ph.D. in statistics in 1968 from [[Harvard University]] for research supervised by [[Frederick Mosteller]].<ref name=mathgene/><ref name=phd>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Stephen Elliot|last=Feinberg |title=The estimation of cell probabilities in two-way contingency tables |publisher=Harvard University |date=1968 |url=http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/003851063/catalog |website=harvard.edu|oclc=500191808 }}</ref>


==Career and research==
Fienberg was a recipient of the [[COPSS Presidents' Award]], an elected member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/55778.html|title=Stephen Fienberg|last=http://www.nasonline.org|first=National Academy of Sciences -|website=www.nasonline.org|access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref> an elected fellow of the [[Royal Society of Canada]], an elected fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amacad.org/multimedia/pdfs/classlist.pdf|title=List of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=12/1/2016}}</ref> a fellow of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.aaas.org/content/fienberg-stephen-e|title=Fienberg, Stephen E|date=2016-08-01|newspaper=AAAS - The World's Largest General Scientific Society|access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref> a fellow of the [[American Statistical Association]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx|title=ASA Fellows List|last=Inc.|first=Advanced Solutions International,|website=www.amstat.org|access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref> and a winner of its Wilks Award, and a fellow of the [[Institute of Mathematical Statistics]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm|title=IMS Awards|website=imstat.org|access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref> He was one of the top social statisticians in the world, and was well known for his work in [[log-linear model]]ing for [[categorical data]], the statistical analysis of network data, and methodology for disclosure limitation. He has authored and coauthored books on categorical data analysis,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/stephen-e-fienberg|title=Stephen E. Fienberg|website=MIT Press|access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref> US census adjustment,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.russellsage.org/publications/who-counts-1|title=Who Counts? {{!}} RSF|website=www.russellsage.org|access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref> and forensic science.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.nap.edu/catalog/10420/the-polygraph-and-lie-detection|title=The Polygraph and Lie Detection|last=Council|first=National Research|date=2002-10-08|isbn=9780309263924|doi=10.17226/10420}}</ref> He is a founder and editor-in-chief of the ''[http://repository.cmu.edu/jpc/ Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://repository.cmu.edu/jpc/|title=Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality {{!}} Journals {{!}} Carnegie Mellon University|website=repository.cmu.edu|access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref> Fienberg was the winner of the 2015 NISS Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2016/05/02/fienberg16/|title=An Interview with Steve Fienberg, 2015 NISS Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research Winner {{!}} Amstat News|website=magazine.amstat.org|access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref> and he was selected to be the [[R. A. Fisher Lectureship|R.A. Fisher Lecturer]] in 2015.<ref>{{Citation|last=Amstat Videos|title=COPSS Awards and Fisher Lecture|date=2015-09-24|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Lc2_F4UEo&feature=youtu.be|accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref>
Fienberg was on the Carnegie Mellon University faculty from 1980 and served as Dean of the [[Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences]].<ref name="Mejia"/><ref name="Erosheva"/> He became a U.S. citizen in 1998.


Fienberg was one of the foremost social statisticians in the world, and was well known for his work in [[log-linear model]]ing for [[categorical data]], the statistical analysis of network data, and methodology for disclosure limitation.
Stephen Fienberg was married to Joyce Fienberg and has two sons, Anthony and Howard, and six grandchildren. He died on December 14, 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2016/december/obituary-fienberg.html|title=STEPHEN E. FIENBERG, 1942-2016|website=www.cmu.edu|access-date=2016-12-14}}</ref>
He was also an expert on forensic science, the only statistician to serve on the National Commission on Forensic Science.<ref name="Rea">{{cite news |last1=Rea |first1=Shilo |title=Obituary: Internationally Acclaimed Statistician Stephen E. Fienberg Changed the Field and Brought Statistics to Science and Public Policy |url=https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2016/december/stephen-fienberg-obituary.html |access-date=28 October 2021 |work=Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences News |publisher= Carnegie Mellon University |date=December 14, 2016 |language=en}}</ref>


He authored more than 400 publications, including six books, advised more than 30 Ph.D. students, and could claim more than 105 descendants in his mathematical genealogy.<ref name=mathgene>{{MathGenealogy|id=58815}}</ref>
==Selected publications==
His publications included books on discrete multivariate analysis<ref name="Carriquiry">{{cite journal |last1=Carriquiry |first1=Alicia L. |last2=Reid |first2=Nancy |last3=Slavković |first3=Aleksandra B. |title=Stephen Elliott Fienberg 1942–2016, Founding Editor of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application |journal=Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application |date=7 March 2019 |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=1–18 |doi=10.1146/annurev-statistics-030718-105334 |bibcode=2019AnRSA...6....1C |s2cid=151119508 |language=en |issn=2326-8298|doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Bishop, Y.M.M., Fienberg, S.E. and Holland, P.W. (1975). Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Haberman, Shelby J.|title=Review: ''Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice'' by Y.M.M. Bishop, S.E. Fienberg and P.W. Holland|journal=The Annals of Statistics|date=July 1976|volume=4|issue=4|pages=817–820|jstor=2958194|doi=10.1214/aos/1176343556}}</ref> Paperback edition (1977). A Citation Classic. [https://books.google.com/books/about/Discrete_Multivariate_Analysis.html?id=IvzJz976rsUC Reprinted, by Springer-Verlag, New York (2007)].
[[categorical data analysis]],<ref name="Mejia">{{cite journal |last1=Mejia |first1=Robin |title=Stephen E. Fienberg (1942–2016) |journal=Nature |date=February 2017 |volume=542 |issue=7642 |pages=415 |doi=10.1038/542415a |pmid=28230130 |bibcode=2017Natur.542..415M |s2cid=4454571 |language=en |issn=0028-0836|doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Fienberg, S.E. and [[David V. Hinkley|Hinkley, D.V.]], eds. (1980). R. A. Fisher: An Appreciation. Springer-Verlag, NY.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Kempthorne, Oscar|authorlink=Oscar Kempthorne|title=A Review of R. A. Fisher: An Appreciation|journal=Journal of the American Statistical Association|date=June 1983|volume=78|issue=382|pages=482–490|jstor=2288664|doi=10.1080/01621459.1983.10478001}}</ref> 1st reprint 1989; [https://books.google.com/books?id=NQTaBwAAQBAJ 2nd reprint by Springer-Verlag, NY (2012)].
US census adjustment,<ref name="Anderson">{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Margo J. |last2=Fienberg |first2=Stephen E. |title=Who Counts? The Politics of Census Taking in Contemporary America |date=1999 |publisher=Russell Sage Foundation |isbn=978-0-87154-257-1 |url=https://www.russellsage.org/publications/who-counts-1 |access-date=28 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.russellsage.org/publications/who-counts-1|title=Who Counts? |website=Russell Sage Foundation |access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref> and forensic science.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.nap.edu/catalog/10420/the-polygraph-and-lie-detection |title=The Polygraph and Lie Detection |author=National Research Council |location=Washington, DC |publisher= The National Academies Press |date=2002-10-08 |isbn=9780309263924 }}</ref>
* Fienberg, S.E. (1980). The Analysis of Cross-classified Categorical Data. 2nd Edition. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA. A Citation Classic. Reprinted, by Springer-Verlag, New York (2007).
* DeGroot, M.H., Fienberg, S.E., and Kadane, J.B., eds. (1986). Statistics and the Law. Wiley, New York. Wiley Classics Paperback edition (1994).
He was a founder and editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality''.<ref name="ILR">{{cite web |title=Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality relaunched with special issue in honor of Stephen E. Fienberg |url=https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/labor-dynamics-institute/ldi-events/journal-privacy-and-confidentiality-relaunched-special-issue-honor-stephen-e-fienberg |website=Labor Dynamics Institute |publisher=Cornell University, ILR School |access-date=28 October 2021|date=January 4, 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://journalprivacyconfidentiality.org/|title=Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality|website=journalprivacyconfidentiality.org|access-date=2019-09-28}}</ref> and of the ''[[Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application]]''.<ref name="ARSA">{{cite journal|doi=10.1146/annurev-statistics-022513-115703|title=What is Statistics?|year=2014|last1=Fienberg|first1=Stephen E.|journal=Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application|volume=1|issue=1|pages=1–9|bibcode=2014AnRSA...1....1F|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* Goldenberg, A., Zheng, A.X., Fienberg, S.E. and Airoldi, E.M. (2010) [https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Survey_of_Statistical_Network_Models.html?id=gPGgcOf95moC A Survey of Statistical Network Models]. Now Publishers Inc.


===Awards and honors===
==References==
Fienberg was
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an elected member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="NAS">{{cite web |title=Stephen Fienberg |url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/podcasts/interviews/stephen-fienberg.html |website=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=28 October 2021}}</ref>
an elected fellow of the [[Royal Society of Canada]],
an elected fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amacad.org/multimedia/pdfs/classlist.pdf|title=List of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=12 January 2016}}</ref>
a fellow of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.aaas.org/content/fienberg-stephen-e|title=Fienberg, Stephen E|date=2016-08-01|newspaper=AAAS – The World's Largest General Scientific Society|access-date=2016-12-01|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202041520/https://www.aaas.org/content/fienberg-stephen-e|archive-date=2016-12-02}}</ref>
a fellow of the [[American Statistical Association]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx|title=ASA Fellows List|last=Inc.|first=Advanced Solutions International|website=www.amstat.org|access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref>
and a fellow of the [[Institute of Mathematical Statistics]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm |title=IMS Awards |website=Institute of Mathematical Statistics |access-date=2016-12-01 |archive-date=2016-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019175343/http://imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>


He was a recipient of the [[Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies]] (COPSS) [[COPSS Presidents' Award|Presidents' Award]] in 1982.<ref name="Lin">{{cite book |last1=Lin |first1=Xihong |last2=Genest |first2=Christian |last3=Banks |first3=David L. |last4=Molenberghs |first4=Geert |last5=Scott |first5=David W. |last6=Wang |first6=Jane-Ling |title=Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science |date=March 26, 2014 |publisher=CRC Press |page=12 |isbn=9781482204988 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1H3SBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA12 |access-date=28 October 2021}}</ref><ref name="COPSS">{{cite web |title=COPSS Awards Recipients |url=https://imstat.org/ims-awards/copss-awards/copss-awards-recipients/ |website=IMS |access-date=28 October 2021}}</ref>
==External links==
In 2002, Fienberg received the [[Wilks Memorial Award|Samuel S. Wilks Award]] from the [[American Statistical Association]] for his distinguished career in statistics.<ref name="Rea"/>
*[http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~fienberg/ Personal page at Carnegie Mellon]
He received the inaugural [[Statistical Society of Canada]]'s [[Lise Manchester Award]] in 2008 in recognition of his application of statistics to problems of public interest.<ref name="Rea"/>
In 2015, he received the Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research from the [[National Institute of Statistical Sciences]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2016/05/02/fienberg16/|title=An Interview with Steve Fienberg, 2015 NISS Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research Winner |website=Amstat News |date=2 May 2016 |access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref>
and the [[R. A. Fisher Lectureship]] from COPSS in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stephen Fienberg selected to give R.A. Fisher Lecture |url=http://www.stat.cmu.edu/news/stephen-fienberg-selected-give-ra-fisher-lecture |website=Carnegie Mellon University |access-date=28 October 2021|date=2015}}</ref>
He was awarded the Zellner Medal by the [[International Society for Bayesian Analysis]] (ISBA) in 2016.<ref>{{cite web |title=Zellner Medal |url=https://bayesian.org/project/zellner-medal/ |website=International Society for Bayesian Analysis |access-date=28 October 2021}}</ref>

===Selected publications===
* [[Yvonne Bishop|Bishop, Y. M. M.]], Fienberg, S. E. and Holland, P. W. (1975). Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Haberman, Shelby J.|title=Review: ''Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice'' by Y. M. M. Bishop, S. E. Fienberg and P. W. Holland|journal=The Annals of Statistics|date=July 1976|volume=4|issue=4|pages=817–820|jstor=2958194|doi=10.1214/aos/1176343556|doi-access=free}}</ref> Paperback edition (1977). A Citation Classic. [https://books.google.com/books/about/Discrete_Multivariate_Analysis.html?id=IvzJz976rsUC Reprinted, by Springer-Verlag, New York (2007)].
* Fienberg, S. E. and [[David V. Hinkley|Hinkley, D. V.]], eds. (1980). R. A. Fisher: An Appreciation. Springer-Verlag, NY.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Kempthorne, Oscar|author-link=Oscar Kempthorne|title=A Review of R. A. Fisher: An Appreciation|journal=Journal of the American Statistical Association|date=June 1983|volume=78|issue=382|pages=482–490|jstor=2288664|doi=10.1080/01621459.1983.10478001}}</ref> 1st reprint 1989; [https://books.google.com/books?id=NQTaBwAAQBAJ 2nd reprint by Springer-Verlag, NY (2012)].
* Fienberg, S. E. (1980). The Analysis of Cross-classified Categorical Data. 2nd Edition. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA. A Citation Classic. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Td5dhfwi31EC Reprinted, by Springer-Verlag, New York (2007)].
* DeGroot, M. H., Fienberg, S. E., and Kadane, J. B., eds. (1986). Statistics and the Law. Wiley, New York. Wiley Classics Paperback edition (1994).{{ISBN missing}}
* Goldenberg, A., Zheng, A. X., Fienberg, S. E. and Airoldi, E. M. (2010) [https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Survey_of_Statistical_Network_Models.html?id=gPGgcOf95moC A Survey of Statistical Network Models]. Now Publishers Inc.

==Personal life==
Stephen Fienberg was married to Joyce Fienberg and had two sons, Anthony and Howard, and six grandchildren. He died on 14 December 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2016/december/obituary-fienberg.html|title=STEPHEN E. FIENBERG, 1942-2016|website=www.cmu.edu|access-date=2016-12-14}}</ref><ref name="Mejia"/>
Joyce Fienberg died on 27 October 2018. She was one of eleven worshippers murdered during the [[Pittsburgh synagogue shooting]] at the [[Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation|Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha]] synagogue in the [[Squirrel Hill]] neighborhood of [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46011267|title=Pittsburgh shooting: Who are the victims?|work=BBC News |date=28 October 2018 |access-date=2018-10-28}}</ref>

==References==
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Stephen Fienberg
Born
Stephen Elliott Fienberg

(1942-11-27)27 November 1942
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died14 December 2016(2016-12-14) (aged 74)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma materHarvard University (PhD)
University of Toronto (BSc)
Known forLog-linear models, Contingency tables
AwardsCOPSS Presidents' Award, R. A. Fisher Lectureship
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University
ThesisThe Estimation of Cell Probabilities in Two-Way Contingency Tables (1968)
Doctoral advisorFrederick Mosteller[1]
Doctoral students
Other notable studentsDavid Blei (postdoc)
External videos
video icon “COPSS Awards and Fisher Lecture”, Amstat Videos, September 24, 2015

Stephen Elliott Fienberg (27 November 1942 – 14 December 2016) was a professor emeritus[2] (formerly the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science) in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department, Heinz College, and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University.[3][4] Fienberg was the founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application[5] and of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.[6]

Early life and education

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Born in Toronto, Ontario, Fienberg earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Toronto in 1964, a Master of Arts degree in statistics in 1965, and a Ph.D. in statistics in 1968 from Harvard University for research supervised by Frederick Mosteller.[1][7]

Career and research

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Fienberg was on the Carnegie Mellon University faculty from 1980 and served as Dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.[4][3] He became a U.S. citizen in 1998.

Fienberg was one of the foremost social statisticians in the world, and was well known for his work in log-linear modeling for categorical data, the statistical analysis of network data, and methodology for disclosure limitation. He was also an expert on forensic science, the only statistician to serve on the National Commission on Forensic Science.[8]

He authored more than 400 publications, including six books, advised more than 30 Ph.D. students, and could claim more than 105 descendants in his mathematical genealogy.[1] His publications included books on discrete multivariate analysis[9] categorical data analysis,[4] US census adjustment,[10][11] and forensic science.[12]

He was a founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.[6][13] and of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.[5]

Awards and honors

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Fienberg was an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences,[14] an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[15] a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[16] a fellow of the American Statistical Association[17] and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[18]

He was a recipient of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Presidents' Award in 1982.[19][20] In 2002, Fienberg received the Samuel S. Wilks Award from the American Statistical Association for his distinguished career in statistics.[8] He received the inaugural Statistical Society of Canada's Lise Manchester Award in 2008 in recognition of his application of statistics to problems of public interest.[8] In 2015, he received the Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research from the National Institute of Statistical Sciences,[21] and the R. A. Fisher Lectureship from COPSS in 2015.[22] He was awarded the Zellner Medal by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) in 2016.[23]

Selected publications

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Personal life

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Stephen Fienberg was married to Joyce Fienberg and had two sons, Anthony and Howard, and six grandchildren. He died on 14 December 2016.[26][4] Joyce Fienberg died on 27 October 2018. She was one of eleven worshippers murdered during the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting at the Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[27]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Stephen Fienberg at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ "Emeritus Celebration for Steve Fienberg". NSF-Census Research Network. October 15, 2016. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  3. ^ a b Erosheva, Elena; Slavkovic, Aleksandra (April 1, 2017). "Obituary: Stephen E. Fienberg, 1942–2016". Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d Mejia, Robin (February 2017). "Stephen E. Fienberg (1942–2016)". Nature. 542 (7642): 415. Bibcode:2017Natur.542..415M. doi:10.1038/542415a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 28230130. S2CID 4454571.
  5. ^ a b Fienberg, Stephen E. (2014). "What is Statistics?". Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. 1 (1): 1–9. Bibcode:2014AnRSA...1....1F. doi:10.1146/annurev-statistics-022513-115703.
  6. ^ a b "Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality relaunched with special issue in honor of Stephen E. Fienberg". Labor Dynamics Institute. Cornell University, ILR School. January 4, 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  7. ^ Feinberg, Stephen Elliot (1968). The estimation of cell probabilities in two-way contingency tables. harvard.edu (PhD thesis). Harvard University. OCLC 500191808.
  8. ^ a b c Rea, Shilo (December 14, 2016). "Obituary: Internationally Acclaimed Statistician Stephen E. Fienberg Changed the Field and Brought Statistics to Science and Public Policy". Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences News. Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  9. ^ Carriquiry, Alicia L.; Reid, Nancy; Slavković, Aleksandra B. (7 March 2019). "Stephen Elliott Fienberg 1942–2016, Founding Editor of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application". Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. 6 (1): 1–18. Bibcode:2019AnRSA...6....1C. doi:10.1146/annurev-statistics-030718-105334. ISSN 2326-8298. S2CID 151119508.
  10. ^ Anderson, Margo J.; Fienberg, Stephen E. (1999). Who Counts? The Politics of Census Taking in Contemporary America. Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 978-0-87154-257-1. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  11. ^ "Who Counts?". Russell Sage Foundation. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  12. ^ National Research Council (2002-10-08). The Polygraph and Lie Detection. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. ISBN 9780309263924.
  13. ^ "Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality". journalprivacyconfidentiality.org. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  14. ^ "Stephen Fienberg". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  15. ^ "List of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences" (PDF). Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  16. ^ "Fienberg, Stephen E". AAAS – The World's Largest General Scientific Society. 2016-08-01. Archived from the original on 2016-12-02. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  17. ^ Inc., Advanced Solutions International. "ASA Fellows List". www.amstat.org. Retrieved 2016-12-01. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  18. ^ "IMS Awards". Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Archived from the original on 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  19. ^ Lin, Xihong; Genest, Christian; Banks, David L.; Molenberghs, Geert; Scott, David W.; Wang, Jane-Ling (March 26, 2014). Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science. CRC Press. p. 12. ISBN 9781482204988. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  20. ^ "COPSS Awards Recipients". IMS. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  21. ^ "An Interview with Steve Fienberg, 2015 NISS Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research Winner". Amstat News. 2 May 2016. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  22. ^ "Stephen Fienberg selected to give R.A. Fisher Lecture". Carnegie Mellon University. 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  23. ^ "Zellner Medal". International Society for Bayesian Analysis. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  24. ^ Haberman, Shelby J. (July 1976). "Review: Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice by Y. M. M. Bishop, S. E. Fienberg and P. W. Holland". The Annals of Statistics. 4 (4): 817–820. doi:10.1214/aos/1176343556. JSTOR 2958194.
  25. ^ Kempthorne, Oscar (June 1983). "A Review of R. A. Fisher: An Appreciation". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 78 (382): 482–490. doi:10.1080/01621459.1983.10478001. JSTOR 2288664.
  26. ^ "STEPHEN E. FIENBERG, 1942-2016". www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
  27. ^ "Pittsburgh shooting: Who are the victims?". BBC News. 28 October 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
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