Stephen Fienberg
| Stephen Fienberg | |
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| Born | Stephen Elliott Fienberg 27 November 1942 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | 14 December 2016 (aged 74) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
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Harvard University (PhD) University of Toronto (BSc) |
| Thesis | The Estimation of Cell Probabilities in Two-Way Contingency Tables (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Frederick Mosteller |
| Notable awards | R. A. Fisher Lectureship |
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Stephen Elliott Fienberg (27 November 1942 – 14 December 2016) was a Professor Emeritus (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.
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
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.
Feinberg 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, US census adjustment, and forensic science. He was a founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.
Fienberg was a recipient of the COPSS Presidents' Award, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a winner of its Wilks Award, and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He was selected to be the R. A. Fisher Lecturer in 2015. Fienberg was the winner of the 2015 NISS Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research,
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