Imperial College London,
Parzen has received many introduction of reproducing
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MIT, IBM, Harvard, and the
honors, including the Samuel kernel spaces, spectral analy-
Center for Advanced Study
S. Wilks Memorial Medal sis, and spectrum smooth-
in the Behavioral Sciences.
from the American Statistical ing. He also received the
Richard Alan
He joined the faculty at Texas
Association for outstand- Distinguished Achievement
Colombo
A&M as a statistics professor
ing research in time series Award in Teaching from
in 1978.
analysis and his innovative Texas A&M University and
Richard Alan Colombo,
the American Statistical
a marketing professor at
Association’s Noether Senior
Fordham University, died on
STATISTICIANS
Scholar Award for research
November 19, 2008.
in nonparametric statis- Colombo worked as a
tics. Parzen is a Fellow of statistician at the Office of
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the American Association Population, Censuses, and
for the Advancement Surveys in England before
of Science, Institute of moving to New York City,
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Mathematical Statistics, where he earned his MBA
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and American Statistical and PhD from Columbia
Association. In honor of University. He taught statis-
click on “Statisticians in the News.” his career, the Emanuel
tics at Columbia University,
and Carol Parzen Prize for New York University,
Statistical Innovation was and Yale University. At
established by the depart- Fordham University, he
ment of statistics at Texas conducted research in
A&M University in 1994. mathematical models. He
Parzen is internation- was a director of the Old
ally known as an innovator Greenwich Association and
of time series analysis by a member of the American
reproducing kernel Hilbert Statistical Association.
spaces; nonparametric and
quantile data modeling;
spectral and probability
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density estimation; and
philosophy of unification of
UMass Gains $1 Million NIH
Erich Lehmann
statistical practice, research,
Grant for Exercise Study
and education. He has pub-
Erich Lehmann, a statistics
researchers at the university of massachusetts, Amherst,
lished six books and more
professor at the University of
have landed just under $1 million from the National
than 100 research papers.
California, Berkeley, died on
Institutes of Health to study why two people doing the
In recognition of his
September 12, 2009, at the
same exercise can get different results.
retirement, Parzen received
age of 91.
distinguished professor
Lehmann was born in
emeritus status with Texas
France and fled the Nazi
$2 Million in Grants for Forensic Science Study
A&M and was named the
invasion with his family in
The u.s. Department of Justice gave the university of California,
inaugural professor in resi-
1933. He attended college
dence of the department of
Davis, program in forensic science $2 million to develop
in Cambridge, England, and
statistics. In this position,
methods that associate probabilities with forensic evidence.
came to Berkeley in 1940
he will work with simon
as a graduate student. He
sheather, department head,
was the author of several
Number Crunchers
to produce a foundational
books and journal papers
video on the history of sta-
India’s The Telegraph interviews AsA President-elect sastry
and awarded many honors,
tistics. He also will partici-
Pantula about statisticians in the united states.
including the Wald and
pate in online panel discus-
Fisher lectureships. He was
sions and meet throughout
president of the Institute of
2010 Census: Politics Counts, Especially in Wake of
the year with colloquium
Mathematical Statistics and
ACORN Scandal
speakers and departmental
an editor of the Annals of
visitors. Finally, he will
oscar Avila of the Chicago Tribune writes about the 2010
Mathematical Statistics. n
continue his research col-
census and why it has caused partisan squabbling.
laborations with graduate
students and faculty.
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