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Stephen M. Stigler
Born (1941-08-10) August 10, 1941 (age 82)
Minneapolis, US
Alma materCarleton College (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Known forStigler's law of eponymy
Scientific career
FieldsRobust statistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Chicago
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Thesis Linear Functions of Order Statistics  (1967)
Doctoral advisorLucien Le Cam
Doctoral studentsLee-Jen Wei
Alan Agresti
Websitewww.stat.uchicago.edu/~stigler/

Stephen Mack Stigler (born August 10, 1941) is the Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago.[1] He has authored several books on the history of statistics; he is the son of the economist George Stigler.

Stigler is also known for Stigler's law of eponymy which states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer – whose first formulation he credits to sociologist Robert K. Merton.

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Stigler was born in Minneapolis.[2] He received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation was on linear functionsoforder statistics, and his advisor was Lucien Le Cam. His research has focused on statistical theory of robust estimators and the history of statistics.

Stigler taught at University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1979 when he joined the University of Chicago. In 2006, he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society,[3] and is a past president (1994) of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

His father was the economist George Stigler, who was a close friend of Milton Friedman.

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  1. ^ Catherine Behan (May 28, 1998) 1998 Quantrell Award: Stephen Stigler University of Chicago Chronicle. 17(17).
  • ^ Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial (1976). "Reports of the President and the Treasurer - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation".
  • ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
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