Stephen Fienberg

Stephen Fienberg
Born Stephen Elliott Fienberg
(1942-11-27)27 November 1942
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died 14 December 2016(2016-12-14) (aged 74)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality Canadian
Alma mater Harvard University (PhD)
University of Toronto (BSc)
Known for Log-linear models, Contingency tables
Awards R. A. Fisher Lectureship
Scientific career
Fields Statistics
Institutions Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis The Estimation of Cell Probabilities in Two-Way Contingency Tables (1968)
Doctoral advisor Frederick Mosteller[1]
Doctoral students
  • Edoardo Airoldi
  • Jana Asher
  • Adrian Dobra
  • Elena Erosheva
  • Alessandro Rinaldo
  • Aleksandra Slavković
Other notable students
Website www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2016/december/obituary-fienberg.html

Stephen Elliott Fienberg (27 November 1942 – 14 December 2016) was a Professor Emeritus[2] (formerly the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science) in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department, Heinz College, and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University.[3][4]

Early life and education

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Fienberg earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Toronto in 1964, a Master of Arts degree in Statistics in 1965, and a Ph.D. in Statistics in 1968 from Harvard University for research supervised by Frederick Mosteller[1][5]

Career and research

He was on the Carnegie Mellon University faculty from 1980, served as Dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and became a U.S. citizen in 1998. He authored more than 400 publications, including six books, advised more than 30 Ph.D. students, and could claim more than 105 descendants in his mathematical genealogy.[1]

Fienberg was one of the foremost social statisticians in the world, and was well known for his work in log-linear modeling for categorical data, the statistical analysis of network data, and methodology for disclosure limitation. He authored and coauthored books on categorical data analysis,[6] US census adjustment,[7] and forensic science.[8] He was a founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.[9]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

Fienberg was a recipient of the COPSS Presidents' Award, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences,[12] an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[13] a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[14] a fellow of the American Statistical Association[15] and a winner of its Wilks Award, and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[16] He was selected to be the R. A. Fisher Lecturer in 2015.[17] Fienberg was the winner of the 2015 NISS Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research,[18]

Personal life

Stephen Fienberg was married to Joyce Fienberg and had two sons, Anthony and Howard, and six grandchildren. He died on 14 December 2016.[19][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Stephen Fienberg at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ "Emeritus Celebration for Steve Fienberg | NSF-Census Research Network". www.ncrn.info. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  3. ↑ "CMU Statistics". stat.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  4. 1 2 Mejia, Robin (2017). "Stephen E. Fienberg (1942–2016) Statistician who campaigned for better science in court". Nature. 542 (7642): 415–415. doi:10.1038/542415a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 28230130.
  5. ↑ Feinberg, Stephen Elliot (1968). The estimation of cell probabilities in two-way contingency tables. harvard.edu (PhD thesis). Harvard University. OCLC 500191808.
  6. ↑ "Stephen E. Fienberg". MIT Press. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  7. ↑ "Who Counts? | RSF". www.russellsage.org. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  8. ↑ Council, National Research (2002-10-08). The Polygraph and Lie Detection. doi:10.17226/10420. ISBN 9780309263924.
  9. ↑ "Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality | Journals | Carnegie Mellon University". repository.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  10. ↑ Haberman, Shelby J. (July 1976). "Review: Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice by Y. M. M. Bishop, S. E. Fienberg and P. W. Holland". The Annals of Statistics. 4 (4): 817–820. doi:10.1214/aos/1176343556. JSTOR 2958194.
  11. ↑ Kempthorne, Oscar (June 1983). "A Review of R. A. Fisher: An Appreciation". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 78 (382): 482–490. doi:10.1080/01621459.1983.10478001. JSTOR 2288664.
  12. ↑ http://www.nasonline.org, National Academy of Sciences. "Stephen Fienberg". www.nasonline.org. Archived from the original on 2016-12-02. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  13. ↑ "List of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences" (PDF). Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  14. ↑ "Fienberg, Stephen E". AAAS – The World's Largest General Scientific Society. 2016-08-01. Archived from the original on 2016-12-02. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  15. ↑ Inc., Advanced Solutions International,. "ASA Fellows List". www.amstat.org. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  16. ↑ "IMS Awards". imstat.org. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  17. ↑ Amstat Videos (2015-09-24), COPSS Awards and Fisher Lecture, retrieved 2016-12-01
  18. ↑ "An Interview with Steve Fienberg, 2015 NISS Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research Winner | Amstat News". magazine.amstat.org. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
  19. ↑ "STEPHEN E. FIENBERG, 1942-2016". www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
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