David O. Siegmund | |
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Born | (1941-11-15) November 15, 1941 (age 82) St. Louis, Missouri, US |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Doctoral advisor | Herbert Robbins |
Doctoral students | |
David Oliver Siegmund (born November 15, 1941)[1] is an American statistician who has worked extensively on sequential analysis.[2]
Siegmund grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri. He received his baccalaureate degree, in mathematics, from Southern Methodist University in 1963, and a doctorate in statistics from Columbia University in 1966. His Ph.D. advisor was Herbert Robbins. After being an assistant and then a full professor at Columbia, he went to Stanford University in 1976, where he is currently a professor of statistics. He has served twice as the chair of Stanford's statistics department.[2][3] He has also held visiting positions at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Zurich, the University of Oxford, and the University of Cambridge.[2]
Siegmund has written with Herbert Robbins and Yuan-Shih Chow on the theory of optimal stopping. Much of his work has been on sequential analysis, and he has also worked on the statistics of gene mapping.[2]