Biography:Charles Joel Stone
Charles Joel Stone | |
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| Born | July 13, 1936 Los Angeles , California , U.S. |
| Died | April 16, 2019 (aged 82) |
| Alma mater | |
| Spouse(s) | Barbara L. Cohn (m. 1966) |
| Children | 2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Cornell University UCLA University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Limit Theorems for Birth and Death Processes and Diffusion Processes |
| Doctoral advisor | Samuel Karlin |
| Doctoral students | |
Charles "Chuck" Joel Stone (July 13, 1936 – April 16, 2019) was an American statistician and mathematician.
Early life
Charles Joel Stone was born and raised in Los Angeles .[1] After secondary school at North Hollywood High School, Stone graduated with a Bachelor of Science in science from the California Institute of Technology in 1958.[2][3] He then matriculated at Stanford University, where in 1961 he received his PhD in statistics. His PhD thesis Limit Theorems for Birth and Death Processes and Diffusion Processes was supervised by Samuel Karlin.[4][5]
Career
From 1962 to 1964 Stone was an assistant professor in the mathematics department of Cornell University. From 1964 1981 to he was a faculty member of the mathematics department of UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), where he worked extensively with Leo Breiman (who moved to Berkeley in 1980) and Sidney Charles Port (born 1935).[1] In the statistics department of the University of California, Berkeley, Stone was from 1981 a full professor, a position which he held until his retirement as professor emeritus.[3]
When they were professors at UCLA, Stone and Breiman consulted for Technology Services Corporation in Santa Monica. Based on their work, they co-authored a 1978 technical report, Parsimonious Binary Classification Trees, Elaborating on the report, in 1984 they published, with two more co-authors, Jerome H. Friedman and Richard Allen Oshlen (born 1942), a greatly expended version entitled Classification and Regression Trees.[3]
In addition to research on statistical algorithms, Stone did research on potential theory, "local limit theorems, weak convergence of stochastic processes, and renewal theory."[3]
Stone was the advisor for 14 doctoral students, including Probal Chaudhuri, Michael P. Cohen, Mark Henry Hansen, and James Stephen "Steve" Marron.[4] Stone was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1980–1981.[6] In 1986 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley, California.[7] He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1970 [8] and a Fellow of the Class of 2013 (announced in 2012) of the American Mathematical Society. He was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.[9]
Personal life
In June 1966 he married Barbara L. Cohn in Los Angeles. They had two sons.[3]
Death
Stone died on April 16, 2019.[3]
Selected publications
Articles
- Stone, Charles (1963). "Weak convergence of stochastic processes defined on semi-infinite time intervals". Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 14 (5): 694–696. doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1963-0153046-2. ISSN 0002-9939.
- Stone, Charles (1965). "On characteristic functions and renewal theory". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 120 (2): 327. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1965-0189151-0. ISSN 0002-9947.
- Stone, Charles (1967). "On local and ratio limit theorems". Lucien M. Le Cam; Jerzy Neyman, eds., Proceedings of the Fifth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Volume 2: Contributions to Probability Theory, Part 2. University of California Press. pp. 217–224. https://projecteuclid.org/ebooks/berkeley-symposium-on-mathematical-statistics-and-probability/Proceedings-of-the-Fifth-Berkeley-Symposium-on-Mathematical-Statistics-and/chapter/On-local-and-ratio-limit-theorems/bsmsp/1200513469.
- Port, Sidney C.; Stone, Charles J. (1967). "Hitting time and hitting places for non-lattice recurrent random walks". Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics 17 (1): 35–57.
- Port, Sidney C.; Stone, Charles J. (1969). "Potential theory of random walks on Abelian groups". Acta Mathematica 122: 19–114. doi:10.1007/BF02392007. ISSN 0001-5962.
- Port, Sidney C.; Stone, Charles J. (1971). "Infinitely divisible processes and their potential theory. I". Annales de l'Institut Fourier 21 (2): 157–275. doi:10.5802/aif.376. ISSN 0373-0956.
- Port, Sidney C.; Stone, Charles J. (1971). "Infinitely divisible processes and their potential theory. II". Annales de l'Institut Fourier 21 (4): 179–265. doi:10.5802/aif.398. ISSN 0373-0956.
- Stone, Charles J. (1972). "An upper bound for the renewal function". The Annals of Mathematical Statistics 43 (6): 2050–2052. doi:10.1214/aoms/1177690883.
- Stone, Charles J. (1975). "Adaptive Maximum Likelihood Estimators of a Location Parameter". The Annals of Statistics 3 (2): 267–284. doi:10.1214/aos/1176343056.
- Stone, Charles J. (1977). "Consistent nonparametric regression". The Annals of Statistics 5 (4): 595–620. doi:10.1214/aos/1176343886.[10] (over 2300 citations)
- Stone, Charles J. (1982). "Optimal Global Rates of Convergence for Nonparametric Regression". The Annals of Statistics 10 (4): 1040–1053. doi:10.1214/aos/1176345969.
- Stone, Charles J. (1984). "An Asymptotically Optimal Window Selection Rule for Kernel Density Estimates". The Annals of Statistics 12 (4): 1285–1297. doi:10.1214/aos/1176346792.
- Stone, Charles J. (1990). "Large-Sample Inference for Log-Spline Models". The Annals of Statistics 18 (2): 717–741. doi:10.1214/aos/1176347622.
- Kooperberg, Charles; Stone, Charles J. (1991). "A study of logspline density estimation". Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 12 (3): 327–347. doi:10.1016/0167-9473(91)90115-I.
- Truong, Young K.; Stone, Charles J. (1992). "Nonparametric Function Estimation Involving Time Series". The Annals of Statistics 20 (1): 77–97. doi:10.1214/aos/1176348513.
- Stone, Charles J. (1994). "The Use of Polynomial Splines and Their Tensor Products in Multivariate Function Estimation". The Annals of Statistics 22 (1): 118–171.
- Kooperberg, Charles; Stone, Charles J.; Truong, Young K. (1995). "Hazard Regression". Journal of the American Statistical Association 90 (429): 78–94. doi:10.1080/01621459.1995.10476491.
- Kooperberg, Charles; Bose, Smarajit; Stone, Charles J. (1997). "Polychotomous Regression". Journal of the American Statistical Association 92 (437): 117–127. doi:10.1080/01621459.1997.10473608.
- Stone, Charles J.; Hansen, Mark H.; Kooperberg, Charles; Truong, Young K. (1997). "Polynomial splines and their tensor products in extended linear modeling: 1994 Wald memorial lecture". The Annals of Statistics 25 (4). doi:10.1214/aos/1031594728.
- Kooperberg, Charles; Bose, Smarajit; Stone, Charles J. (1997). "Polychotomous Regression". Journal of the American Statistical Association 92 (437): 117–127. doi:10.1080/01621459.1997.10473608.
- Stone, Charles J. (2005). "Nonparametric M-regression with free knot splines". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 130 (1–2): 183–206. doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2003.05.002. ISSN 0378-3758.
- Kooperberg, C.; Stone, C. J. (2013). "Chapter 16. Logspline Density Estimation". Nonlinear Estimation and Classification. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol. 171. pp. 285–296. ISBN 9780387215792. https://books.google.com/books?id=0IDuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA285.
Books
- Hoel, P.; Port, S. C.; Stone, C. J. (1971). Introduction to Probability Theory. Houghton Mifflin. (textbook)
- Hoel, P.; Port, S. C.; Stone, C. J. (1971). Introduction to Statistics. Houghton Mifflin. (textbook)
- Hoel, Paul G.; Port, Sidney C.; Stone, Charles J. (December 1986). Introduction to Stochastic Processes. Waveland Press. ISBN 9781478608998. https://books.google.com/books?id=vfUWAAAAQBAJ. 1st edition. Houghton Mifflin. 1971. (textbook)
- Port, Sidney C.; Stone, Charles J. (2 December 2012). Brownian Motion and Classical Potential Theory. Elsevier. ISBN 9780323159081. https://books.google.com/books?id=X2uyrSNMgcYC. 1st edition. 1978.[11]
- Breiman, Leo; Friedman, Jerome H.; Olshen, Richard A.; Stone, Charles J. (1984). Classification And Regression Trees (1st ed.).
- Breiman, Leo; Friedman, Jerome H.; Olshen, Richard A.; Stone, Charles J. (2017). ebook. Boca Raton: Routledge. doi:10.1201/9781315139470. ISBN 9781315139470; 368 pages; abstract & table of contents
- Stone, Charles J. (1996). A Course in Probability and Statistics. Duxbury Press. ISBN 9780534233280. https://books.google.com/books?id=caQZAQAAIAAJ.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Stone, Charles J. (2010). "Selected recollections of my relationship with Leo Breiman". The Annals of Applied Statistics 4 (4). doi:10.1214/10-AOAS431.
- ↑ "California Institute of Technology Sixth-fourth Annual Commencement Exercise". 1958. https://campuspubs.library.caltech.edu/2539/3/June_13%252C_1958.pdf.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Olshen, Richard A.; Bickel, Peter (2020). "In Memoriam. Charles Joel Stone, Professor of Statistics, Emeritus, UC Berkeley". https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/in-memoriam/files/chuck-stone.html.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Charles Joel Stone at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Charles Joel Stone". https://statistics.stanford.edu/people/charles-joel-stone.
- ↑ "Charles J. Stone". https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/charles-j-stone/.
- ↑ Stone, C. J. (1986). "A nonparametric framework for statistical modelling". Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, August 3–11, 1986, Berkeley, California. 2. pp. 1052–1056.
- ↑ "Stone, Charles J.". https://imstat.org/scientific-legacy-database/?person_name=Stone%2C+Charles+J.&person_id=992.
- ↑ "Charles J. Stone". http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/64197.html.
- ↑ "In memoriam: Charles Stone". April 25, 2019. https://ww3.math.ucla.edu/in-memoriam-charles-stone/.
- ↑ Blumenthal, R. M. (1980). "Book Review: Brownian motion and classical potential theory". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 2 (3): 477–480. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1980-14774-6.
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