Jon A. Wellner
Jon August Wellner | |
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| Born | August 17, 1945 Portland, Oregon, USA |
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| Fields | Statistics |
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| Doctoral advisor | Galen Shorack |
| Doctoral students | Nilanjan Chatterjee Marloes Maathuis Florentina Bunea Moulinath Banerjee |
Jon August Wellner (born August 17, 1945) is an American statistician known for his contributions to the fields of statistical inference,
empirical process theory, and survival analysis.[1]
Education and career
Wellner was born in
U.S. Army Signal Corps from 1969 to 1971, he returned to graduate study in statistics at the University of Washington and received his Ph.D. in 1975 with Galen Shorack as his advisor.[3][4]
Wellner worked as an assistant professor and associate professor of statistics at the
Seattle, Washington and became a professor of statistics. He remained at the University of Washington for the rest of his career, retiring in 2020.[5]
Honors and awards
Wellner was elected a Fellow of the
Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.[3][4] A conference in honor of Wellner's 65th birthday was held in July of 2010.[1]
Bibliography
- OCLC 26308177.
- OCLC 26767877.
- ISBN 978-0-47186-725-8.
- OCLC 33664331
References
- ^ JSTOR 26771023.
- JSTOR 26771023.
- ^ S2CID 88523234.
- ^ a b "Biographical Sketch of Jon A. Wellner". sites.stat.washington.edu. Retrieved April 13, 2023.
- ^ "Jon Wellner retires after 37 years at UW | Biostatistics". www.biostat.washington.edu. Retrieved April 13, 2023.
- ^ "Gottfried E. Noether Awards". Default. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
- ^ "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Le Cam Lecture preview: Jon A. Wellner". Retrieved October 17, 2023.
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