George Casella

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George C. Casella
Born(1951-01-22)January 22, 1951
DiedJune 17, 2012(2012-06-17) (aged 61)
NationalityAmerican
EducationFordham University
Purdue University
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsRutgers University
Cornell University
University of Florida
ThesisMinimax Ridge Regression Estimation (1977)
Doctoral advisorLeon 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

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  • Casella, George (2008). Statistical design. Berlin: Springer. .
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  • Casella, George; Wu, Rongling; Changxing Ma (2010). Statistical Genetics of Quantitative Traits: Linkage, Maps and QTL (Statistics for Biology and Health). Berlin: Springer. .

References

  1. ^ George Casella at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ 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.
  3. JSTOR 2337434
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  4. S2CID 11797924. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2014-11-07.
  5. ^ Casella, George. "VITA" (PDF). Retrieved 4 November 2012.

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