George Casella
George C. Casella | |
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Born | |
Died | June 17, 2012 | (aged 61)
Nationality | American |
Education | Fordham University Purdue University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | Rutgers University Cornell University University of Florida |
Thesis | Minimax Ridge Regression Estimation (1977) |
Doctoral advisor | Leon Jay Gleser[1] |
Doctoral students |
George Casella (January 22, 1951 – June 17, 2012) was a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. He died from multiple myeloma.[2]
Academic career
Casella completed his undergraduate education at
Rao–Blackwellization technique,[3] and recasting lasso as Bayesian posterior mode estimation with independent Laplace priors.[4]
Awards
Casella was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1988, and he was made an Elected Fellow of the International Statistical Institute in 1989. In 2009, he was made a Foreign Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.[5]
Selected bibliography
- Casella, George; ISBN 0-387-98502-6.
- ISBN 0-534-24312-6.
- Casella, George; ISBN 0-387-21239-6.
- McCulloch, Charles E.; ISBN 0-470-00959-4.
- Casella, George (2008). Statistical design. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-75965-4.
- Casella, George; ISBN 978-1-4419-1575-7.
- Casella, George; Wu, Rongling; Changxing Ma (2010). Statistical Genetics of Quantitative Traits: Linkage, Maps and QTL (Statistics for Biology and Health). Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4419-1912-0.
References
- ^ George Casella at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Obituary: George Casella, 1951-2012". IMS Bulletin. Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Feb 27, 2013. Archived from the original on March 6, 2013. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
- JSTOR 2337434.
- S2CID 11797924. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2014-11-07.
- ^ Casella, George. "VITA" (PDF). Retrieved 4 November 2012.
External links
- "George Casella Home Page". Retrieved 4 November 2012.