Stephen Stigler

Stephen Mack Stigler is Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago.^[1] His research has focused on statistical theory of robust estimators and the history of statistics. He is also known for Stigler's law of eponymy

His father was the economist George Stigler, and he has recently^[when?] written on Milton Friedman, who was a friend of his father.

Stigler received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation was on linear functions of order statistics, and his advisor was Lucien Le Cam.

Stigler taught at University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1979 when he joined the University of Chicago, where he is currently the chairman of the statistics department. In 2006 he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society, and is a past president of Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

[edit] Books

• Stephen M. Stigler, ed (1980). American Contributions to Mathematical Statistics in the Nineteenth Century, Volumes I & II. New York: Arno Press. 
• The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900. ISBN 0-674-40340-1
• Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods. ISBN 0-674-83601-4

[edit] Selected articles

• Gergonne, J. D. (1974 [1815]). Ralph St. John and S. M. Stigler. ed. "The application of the method of least squares to the interpolation of sequences (translated by Ralph St. John and S. M. Stigler)". Historia Mathematica 1 (4): 439–447. doi:10.1016/0315-0860(74)90034-2. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WG9-4D7JMHH-20/2/df451ec5fbb7c044d0f4d900af80ec86. 
• Stigler, Stephen M. (1974). "Gergonne's 1815 paper on the design and analysis of polynomial regression experiments". Historia Mathematica 1 (4): 431–439. doi:10.1016/0315-0860(74)90033-0. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WG9-4D7JMHH-1Y/2/680c7ada0198761e9866197d53512ab4. 

• Stigler, Stephen M. (March 1978). "Mathematical Statistics in the Early States". Annals of Statistics 6: 239–265. doi:10.1214/aos/1176344123. JSTOR 2958876.MR483118. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aos/1176344123. 
  • Stigler, Stephen M. (1980). "Mathematical Statistics in the Early States". In Stephen M. Stigler. American Contributions to Mathematical Statistics in the Nineteenth Century, Volumes I & II. I. New York: Arno Press. 
  • Stigler, Stephen M. (1989). "Mathematical Statistics in the Early States". In Peter Duren. A Century of Mathematics in America. III. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. pp. 537–564. 

• Stigler, Stephen M. (1978). "Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, statistician". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General) 141 (3): 287–322. doi:10.2307/2344804. JSTOR 2344804. http://jstor.org/stable/2344804. 

• Stigler, S. M. (1980). Stigler's law of eponymy. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 39: 147-58 (Merton Frestschrift Volume, F. Gieryn (ed)).

• Stigler, S. M. (1983). Who discovered Bayes's theorem? The American Statistician, 37(4): 290-6.

• Stephen M. Stigler (November 1992). "A Historical View of Statistical Concepts in Psychology and Educational Research". American Journal of Education 101 (1): 60–70. doi:10.1086/444032. 

[edit] See also

• Stigler's law of eponymy

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Homepage at the University of Chicago
• Mathematics Genealogy: Stephen Mack Stigler

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