Donald Richards (statistician)

Donald St. P. Richards (born 1955, Mandeville, Jamaica) is a Jamaican statistician conducting research on matrix analysis, Markov chains, and hyper-geometric domains. He currently serves as a professor of statistics at Pennsylvania State University,[1] and is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[2][3]

Donald St. P. Richards
Born
Mandeville, Jamaica
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics, Probability
InstitutionsPennsylvania State University
University of Virginia
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of the West Indies

Richards obtained his PhD in 1978 at the University of the West Indies, where the statistician Rameshwar D. Gupta was his doctoral advisor.[4] In 2012, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

Personal life

He was married to Mercedes Richards, a Jamaican astronomy and astrophysics professor, until her death in 2016.[6]

References
  1. "DLMF: Donald St. P. Richards". Dlmf.nist.gov. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  2. "List of fellows of the American Mathematical Society". ams.org. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  3. "IMS Awards". imstat.org. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  4. Donald Richards at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  6. Wright, Jason (4 February 2016). "Mercedes Richards (1955-2016)". sites.psu.edu. Retrieved 16 July 2018.


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