Charles Stein
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Charles Stein was an influential American statistician best known for discovering Stein's paradox and developing shrinkage estimators that revolutionized statistical estimation theory.
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| instanceOf |
American statistician
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academic ⓘ statistician ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Fisher Lectureship of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies
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Noether Senior Scholar Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Wald Lectureship of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics NERFINISHED ⓘ membership in the National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
foundations of empirical Bayes methods
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multivariate normal mean estimation ⓘ probability theory via Stein's method ⓘ theory of minimax estimation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedAs |
influential American statistician
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pioneer of shrinkage estimation in statistics ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer |
Columbia University
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Stanford University ⓘ University of Chicago ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
mathematical statistics
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statistics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
modern high-dimensional statistics
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risk estimation and shrinkage methods ⓘ statistical practice in multivariate analysis ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bayesian statistics
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development of high-dimensional estimation theory ⓘ development of modern empirical Bayes methods ⓘ frequentist decision theory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
James–Stein estimator
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Stein's lemma NERFINISHED ⓘ Stein's method NERFINISHED ⓘ Stein's paradox NERFINISHED ⓘ contributions to decision theory ⓘ contributions to statistical estimation theory ⓘ shrinkage estimators ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
inadmissibility of the usual estimator in dimensions three and higher
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shrinkage estimation ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Bradley Efron
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Ingram Olkin NERFINISHED ⓘ Persi Diaconis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | professor ⓘ |
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