Donald Rubin
Donald Bruce Rubin | |
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Born | Donald Bruce Rubin December 22, 1943 PhD) |
Known for | Rubin causal model Expectation–maximization algorithm |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | Educational Testing Service Princeton University University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Chicago Harvard University Tsinghua University Temple University |
Thesis | The Use of Matched Sampling and Regression Adjustment in Observational Studies (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | William Gemmell Cochran |
Doctoral students |
Donald Bruce Rubin (born December 22, 1943) is an Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Harvard University,[1] where he chaired the department of Statistics for 13 years.[2] He also works at Tsinghua University in China and at Temple University in Philadelphia.[3]
He is most well known for the
In 1977 he was elected as a
Biography
Rubin was born in
Rubin became a PhD student again, this time in Statistics under William Cochran at the Harvard Statistics Department. After graduating from Harvard in 1970, he began working at the Educational Testing Service in 1971, and served as a visiting faculty member at Princeton's new statistics department. He published his major papers on the Rubin causal model in 1974–1980, seminal papers on propensity score matching in the early 1980s with Paul Rosenbaum, and a textbook on the subject with Nobel prize winning econometrician Guido Imbens in 2015.[6]
References
- ^ "Donald B. Rubin". Harvard College. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
- ^ "Donald B. Rubin" (PDF). Harvard College. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
- ^ "Fox School, Temple University, appoints Rubin and Airoldi". IMS Bulletin. Institute of Mathematical Statistics. September 1, 2018. Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
- ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-08-20.
- S2CID 58334768.
- ^ "Causal Inference in Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences". Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 24 February 2015.