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Bruce George Lindsay (March 7, 1947 – May 5, 2015) was an American statistician best known for his contributions to mixture modeling and likelihood theory.
Bruce G. Lindsay | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 7, 1947 The Dalles, Oregon |
| Died | May 5, 2015 (aged 68) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Oregon |
| Alma mater | University of Washington |
| Known for | Contributions to mixture modeling and likelihood theory |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Norman Breslow |
| Doctoral students | |
Biography
editLindsay was born in 1947 in The Dalles, Oregon. He has earned a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Oregon in 1969 and a Ph.D. in biomathematics from the University of Washington in 1978.[1] Between his undergraduate and graduate studies he has served in the U.S. Coast Guard for four years during the Vietnam War.[2] He joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty in 1979, heading the Department of Statistics in 1998–2000 and 2006–2012 and rising to the rank of Eberly Chair in Statistics in 2012.[1] He was also a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University in 1987, the Yale University in 1990, and North Carolina State University in 2004–2005.[1] He was elected to be a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1987, of the Guggenheim Foundation in 1996, and of the American Statistical Association in 1998.[1]
Selected publications
edit- Lindsay, Bruce G. "Mixture models: theory, geometry and applications." NSF-CBMS regional conference series in probability and statistics. Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association, 1995.
- Lindsay, Bruce G. "The geometry of mixture likelihoods: a general theory." The Annals of Statistics 11.1 (1983): 86–94.
- Lindsay, Bruce G. "Composite likelihood methods." Contemporary Mathematics 80.1 (1988): 221–39.
- Lindsay, Bruce G. "Efficiency versus robustness: the case for minimum Hellinger distance and related methods." The annals of statistics (1994): 1081–1114.
- Lindsay, Bruce G. "The geometry of mixture likelihoods, part II: the exponential family." The Annals of Statistics 11.3 (1983): 783–792.
Notes
edit- ^ a b c d "Bruce G. Lindsay -- CV February 2015" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-05-26.
- ^ Centre Daily Times obituary, May 10, 2015