Lawrence D. Brown

Lawrence David Brown (16 December 1940 – 21 February 2018)[1][2] was Miers Busch Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for his groundbreaking work in a broad range of fields including decision theory, recurrence and partial differential equations, nonparametric function estimation, minimax and adaptation theory, and the analysis of census data and call-center data.[3]

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Lawrence D. Brown
Lawrence D. Brown
Born(1940-12-16)December 16, 1940
Los Angeles
DiedFebruary 21, 2018(2018-02-21) (aged 77)
NationalityUnited States
Alma materCornell University
California Institute of Technology
Spouse(s)Linda Zhao
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Doctoral advisorJack Kiefer
Doctoral studentsJim Berger
T. Tony Cai
Iain M. Johnstone

Career

Brown was educated at the California Institute of Technology and Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1964. He earned numerous honors, including election to the United States National Academy of Sciences, and has published widely. He was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1992-93. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.[4]

After having been assistant professor at University of California at Berkeley, associate professor at Cornell University, and professor at Cornell University and Rutgers University, he was invited to join the Department of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Personal life

Brown was born in Los Angeles to parents Louis M. Brown and Hermione Brown.[5] He was married to Linda Zhao, a fellow statistician at the Wharton School.[6]

Honors and awards

In his honor

Selected Publications

    Books
    • 1985. (with Olkin, I., Sacks, J., and Wynn, H.P.) Jack Carl Kiefer Collected Papers, 3 vols., Springer-Verlag, New York.
    • 1986. (with Olkin, I., Sacks, J., and Wynn, H.P.) Jack Carl Kiefer Collected Papers Supplementary Volume, Springer-Verlag, New York.
    • 1986. Fundamentals of Statistical Exponential Families with Applications in Statistical Decision Theory, Inst. of Math. Statist., Hayward, California.
    • 2005. (with Plewes, T.J., and Gerstein, M.A.) Measuring Research and Development in the United States Economy, National Academies Press.
    • 2010. (with Michael L. Cohen, Daniel L. Cork, and Constance F. Citro) Envisioning the 2020 Census. Panel on the Design of the 2020 Census Program of Evaluations and Experiments, Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.

    References
    1. Berger, James O.; Cai, T. Tony; Johnstone, Iain M., eds. (2010). "Biography of Lawrence D. Brown". Borrowing Strength: Theory Powering Applications – A Festschrift for Lawrence D. Brown. Beachwood, Ohio, USA: Institute of Mathematical Statistics. pp. ix–x.
    2. "Lawrence Brown". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
    3. "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award". Retrieved 2020-06-08.
    4. Newly elected members Archived 2013-05-01 at the Wayback Machine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, April 2013, retrieved 2013-04-24.
    5. "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Obituary: Lawrence Brown, 1940–2018". Retrieved 2020-06-08.
    6. "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Obituary: Lawrence Brown, 1940–2018". Retrieved 2020-06-16.
    7. "Lawrence D. Brown". www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
    8. "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Honored Special Lecturers Recipient List". Retrieved 2020-06-08.
    9. Purdue University. "Honorary Doctorate Degrees, 1888-Current" (PDF).
    10. Penn State Eberly College of Science Department of Statistics. "C. R. Rao and Bhargavi Prize".
    11. "Provost's Awards • University Archives and Records Center". University Archives and Records Center. Retrieved 2020-06-08.


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