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Stephen E. Fienberg
Born(1942-11-27)27 November 1942
Toronto, Canada
Died14 December 2016(2016-12-14) (aged 74)[1]
Pittsburgh, PA
NationalityCanadian
Alma materHarvard University
University of Toronto
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University
Doctoral advisorFrederick Mosteller

Stephen Elliott Fienberg (27 November 1942 – 14 December 2016) was 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]

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.[4]

Fienberg was a recipient of the COPSS Presidents' Award, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences,[5] an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[6] a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[7] a fellow of the American Statistical Association[8] and a winner of its Wilks Award, and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[9] He was one of the top 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 has authored and coauthored books on categorical data analysis,[10] US census adjustment,[11] and forensic science.[12] He is a founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.[13] Fienberg was the winner of the 2015 NISS Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research,[14] and he was selected to be the R.A. Fisher Lecturer in 2015.[15]

Stephen Fienberg was married to Joyce Fienberg and has two sons, Anthony and Howard, and six grandchildren. He died on December 14, 2016.

Selected publications

  • Bishop, Y.M.M., Fienberg, S.E. and Holland, P.W. (1975). Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA.[16] Paperback edition (1977). A Citation Classic. Reprinted, by Springer-Verlag, New York (2007).
  • Fienberg, S.E. and Hinkley, D.V., eds. (1980). R. A. Fisher: An Appreciation. Springer-Verlag, NY.[17] 1st reprint 1989; 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. 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).
  • Goldenberg, A., Zheng, A.X., Fienberg, S.E. and Airoldi, E.M. (2010) A Survey of Statistical Network Models. Now Publishers Inc.

References

  1. ^ "STEPHEN E. FIENBERG, 1942-2016". www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
  2. ^ "Emeritus Celebration for Steve Fienberg | NSF-Census Research Network". www.ncrn.info. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  3. ^ "CMU Statistics". stat.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  4. ^ "Stephen Fienberg - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  5. ^ http://www.nasonline.org, National Academy of Sciences -. "Stephen Fienberg". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2016-12-01. {{cite web}}: External link in |last= (help)
  6. ^ "List of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences" (PDF). Retrieved 12/1/2016. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  7. ^ "Fienberg, Stephen E". AAAS - The World's Largest General Scientific Society. 2016-08-01. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  8. ^ Inc., Advanced Solutions International,. "ASA Fellows List". www.amstat.org. Retrieved 2016-12-01. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "IMS Awards". imstat.org. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  10. ^ "Stephen E. Fienberg". MIT Press. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  11. ^ "Who Counts? | RSF". www.russellsage.org. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  12. ^ Council, National Research (2002-10-08). The Polygraph and Lie Detection. doi:10.17226/10420. ISBN 9780309263924.
  13. ^ "Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality | Journals | Carnegie Mellon University". repository.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  14. ^ "An Interview with Steve Fienberg, 2015 NISS Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research Winner | Amstat News". magazine.amstat.org. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  15. ^ Amstat Videos (2015-09-24), COPSS Awards and Fisher Lecture, retrieved 2016-12-01
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ 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.
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