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Serge B. Provost is a full professor at the University of Western Ontario in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences.^[1] He became an Associate of the Society of Actuaries in 1980. Provost research interests include multivariate analysis, computational statistics, data analytics and distribution theory, with applications involving problems arising in various areas of scientific investigation such as biostatistics, finance, optics, imaging, and machine learning.

Education

Provost obtained a doctoral degree in Mathematics and Statistics from McGill University.

Books

Mathai, A. M.; Provost, Serge B.; Hayakawa, Takesi (1995). Bilinear Forms and Zonal Polynomials. New York, NY: Springer New York. doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-4242-0_2. ISBN 978-1-4612-4242-0. OCLC 852789931.
Mathai, A. M.; Provost, Serge B.; Haubold, H.J. (2022). Multivariate statistical analysis in the real and complex domains. Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-95864-0_13. ISBN 978-3-030-95864-0. OCLC 1347381548.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Mathai, A. M.; Provost, Serge B. (1992). Quadratic forms in random variables : theory and applications. New York: M. Dekker. ISBN 0-8247-8691-2. OCLC 24953650.^[2]
Saboor, Abdus; Provost, Serge B.; Ahmad, Munir (2010). Univariate and Bivariate Gamma-Type Distributions. Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-3838345536.

Selected publications

Provost, Serge B.; Ha, Hyung-Tae (2015-06-29). "Distribution approximation and modelling via orthogonal polynomial sequences". Statistics: 1–17. doi:10.1080/02331888.2015.1053809. ISSN 0233-1888.
Jiang, Min; Provost, Serge B. (2014-03-04). "A hybrid bandwidth selection methodology for kernel density estimation". Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 84 (3): 614–627. doi:10.1080/00949655.2012.721366. ISSN 0094-9655.
Mathai, Arak M.; Provost, Serge B. (2022-07-04). "On the singular gamma, Wishart, and beta matrix‐variate density functions". Canadian Journal of Statistics: cjs.11710. doi:10.1002/cjs.11710. ISSN 0319-5724.
Provost, Serge B.; Yang, Zhaoqi; Ahmed, S. Ejaz (June 2022). "Securing Density Estimates via Smooth Moment-Based Empirical Distribution Function Approximants". Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics. 23 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1007/s41096-022-00119-4. ISSN 2364-9569.

Awards

Provost has received three teaching awards 2005, 2008, 2010 and chaired a national fellowship and scholarship selection committee. He is a Fellow and Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society.

References

^ "Serge Provost". University of Western Ontario.
^ "Quadratic Forms in Random Variables: Theory and Applications". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society). 156 (2): 326. 1993. doi:10.2307/2982749.

Category:Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario Category:Canadian academics Category:Canadian male writers

[1] "Serge Provost". University of Western Ontario.

[2] "Quadratic Forms in Random Variables: Theory and Applications". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society). 156 (2): 326. 1993. doi:10.2307/2982749.

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