Peter J. Bickel
| Peter John Bickel | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1940 Romania |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Erich Leo Lehmann |
| Doctoral students | Jianqing Fan C.F. Jeff Wu |
| Other notable students | Mark van der Laan Donald Andrews |
| Notable awards | COPSS Presidents' Award (1981), MacArthur Fellow |
Peter John Bickel (born 1940) is an American statistician,[1] Professor of Statistics in University of California, Berkeley,[2] who is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences. He is past President of the Bernoulli Society and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
He studied physics at the California Institute of Technology.[3] He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a Ph.D., in 1963, where he studied with Erich Leo Lehmann.[4]
As a scientist and an educator, he has supervised and mentored many students and young researchers, many of whom later become leading figures in the fields of statistics and economics. These include C.F. Jeff Wu, Jianqing Fan, Mark van der Laan, Donald Andrews, etc.
He married Nancy Kramer in 1964; they have two children.[5]
Awards
- 1970 Guggenheim Fellow[6]
- 1981 the recipient of COPSS Presidents' Award[7]
- 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program
- 1986 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[8]
- 1986 Honorary Doctorate degree from Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- 2006 Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau[9]
- 2013 R. A. Fisher Lectureship[10]
- 2014 Honorary Doctorate degree from ETH Zurich [11]
References
- ↑ http://orfe.princeton.edu/conferences/frontiers/Biography.pdf
- ↑ http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~bickel/
- ↑ Reminiscences of a statistician: the company I kept, Erich Leo Lehmann, Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-71596-4
- ↑ Frontiers in statistics: dedicated to Peter John Bickel in honor of his 65th birthday, Jianqing Fan, Hira L. Koul, Imperial College Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-86094-670-7, page 1
- ↑ Frontiers in statistics: dedicated to Peter John Bickel in honor of his 65th birthday, Jianqing Fan, Hira L. Koul, Imperial College Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-86094-670-7, page xix
- ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/1254-peter-j-bickel
- ↑ http://www.imstat.org/awards/copss_recipients.htm
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Further reading
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External links
- 1940 births
- American statisticians
- Romanian emigrants to the United States
- California Institute of Technology alumni
- University of California, Berkeley faculty
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- MacArthur Fellows
- Living people
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Commanders of the Order of Orange-Nassau
