Biography:Peter J. Bickel
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Short description: Romanian-born American statistician
Peter John Bickel | |
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| Born | 1940 (age 83–84) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
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| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Asymptotically Nonparametric Statistical Inference in the Multivariate Cases |
| Doctoral advisor | Erich Leo Lehmann |
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Peter John Bickel (born 1940) is an American statistician[1] and Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.[2]
Education and career
Bickel studied physics at the California Institute of Technology.[3] He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a Ph.D., in 1963, where he studied under Erich Leo Lehmann.[4]
His students include C.F. Jeff Wu, Jianqing Fan, Katerina Kechris, Elizaveta Levina, and Donald Andrews.[5]
Personal
He married Nancy Kramer in 1964; they have two children.[6]
Awards
- 1970 Guggenheim Fellow[7]
- 1973 Fellow of the American Statistical Association[8]
- 1981 the recipient of COPSS Presidents' Award[9]
- 1984 MacArthur Fellow
- 1986 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[10]
- 1986 Member of the National Academy of Sciences[11]
- 1986 Honorary Doctorate degree from Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- 1995 Foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences[12]
- 2006 Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau[13]
- 2013 R. A. Fisher Lectureship[14]
- 2014 Honorary Doctorate degree from ETH Zurich[15]
References
- ↑ http://orfe.princeton.edu/conferences/frontiers/Biography.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ↑ "Peter J. Bickel". http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~bickel/.
- ↑ Reminiscences of a statistician: the company I kept, Erich Leo Lehmann, Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-71596-4
- ↑ Frontiers in statistics: dedicated to Peter John Bickel in honor of his 65th birthday, Jianqing Fan, Hira L. Koul, Imperial College Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-86094-670-7, page 1
- ↑ Fan, Jianqing; Ritov, Ya'acov; Wu, C. F. Jeff, eds. (2012), "Ph.D. Students of Peter J. Bickel", Selected Works of Peter J. Bickel, Selected Works in Probability and Statistics, 13, Springer Science+Business Media, pp. xxxi–xxxiii, ISBN 9781461455448
- ↑ Frontiers in statistics: dedicated to Peter John Bickel in honor of his 65th birthday, Jianqing Fan, Hira L. Koul, Imperial College Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-86094-670-7, page xix
- ↑ "Peter J. Bickel - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". http://www.gf.org/fellows/1254-peter-j-bickel.
- ↑ View/Search Fellows of the ASA , accessed 2016-08-20.
- ↑ "COPSS Awards - Recipients". http://www.imstat.org/awards/copss_recipients.htm.
- ↑ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf.
- ↑ "Peter Bickel". http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/57711.html.
- ↑ "P.J. Bickel". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/3873.
- ↑ "James Francis Hannan Visiting Scholars: Professor Peter J. Bickel". Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University. 2012. http://www.stt.msu.edu/lecture_series/bickel.aspx.
- ↑ "Fisher Lecture — Past Award Recipients". Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. http://nisla05.niss.org/copss/PastAwardsFisher.pdf.
- ↑ "Archived copy". https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/main/news/eth-tag/Dokumente/2014/eth-tag-2014-laudatio-bickel.pdf.
Further reading
- Ritov, Y. A. (2011). "A Random Walk with Drift: Interview with Peter J. Bickel". Statistical Science 26: 150–159. doi:10.1214/09-STS300.
- Fan, Jianqing; Ritov, Ya'acov; Wu, Chien-Fu, eds (2012). "Biography of Peter J. Bickel". Selected Works of Peter J. Bickel. Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN 9781461455448.
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