Peter John Bickel | |
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Born | 1940 (age 84–85) Bucharest, Romania |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | Asymptotically Nonparametric Statistical Inference in the Multivariate Cases |
Doctoral advisor | Erich Leo Lehmann |
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Peter John Bickel (born 1940) is an American statistician and Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Bickel has made contributions to bootstrapping, robust statistics, machine learning, and other areas of statistics.
Education and career
Bickel studied physics at the California Institute of Technology. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a Ph.D., in 1963, where he studied under Erich Leo Lehmann.
His students include C.F. Jeff Wu, Jianqing Fan, Katerina Kechris, Elizaveta Levina, and Donald Andrews.
Personal
He married Nancy Kramer in 1964; they have two children.
Awards
- 1970 Guggenheim Fellow
- 1973 Fellow of the American Statistical Association
- 1981 the recipient of COPSS Presidents' Award
- 1984 MacArthur Fellow
- 1986 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1986 Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1986 Honorary Doctorate degree from Hebrew University, Jerusalem
- 1995 Foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2006 Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau
- 2013 R. A. Fisher Lectureship
- 2014 Honorary Doctorate degree from ETH Zurich
References
- ^ "Biography of Peter J. Bickel" (PDF). Workshop on Frontiers of Statistics In honor of Peter Bickel's 65th birthday. Princeton University. May 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-03-16.
- "Peter J. Bickel".
- Reminiscences of a statistician: the company I kept, Erich Leo Lehmann, Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-71596-4
- Frontiers in statistics: dedicated to Peter John Bickel in honor of his 65th birthday, Jianqing Fan, Hira L. Koul, Imperial College Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-86094-670-7, page 1
- Fan, Jianqing; Ritov, Ya'acov; Wu, C. F. Jeff, eds. (2012), "Ph.D. Students of Peter J. Bickel", Selected Works of Peter J. Bickel, Selected Works in Probability and Statistics, vol. 13, Springer Science+Business Media, pp. xxxi–xxxiii, ISBN 9781461455448
- Frontiers in statistics: dedicated to Peter John Bickel in honor of his 65th birthday, Jianqing Fan, Hira L. Koul, Imperial College Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-86094-670-7, page xix
- "Peter J. Bickel - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2012-08-19. Retrieved 2010-03-25.
- View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-08-20.
- "COPSS Awards - Recipients". Archived from the original on 2016-03-12. Retrieved 2011-05-08.
- "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
- "Peter Bickel". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
- "P.J. Bickel". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 21 May 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- "James Francis Hannan Visiting Scholars: Professor Peter J. Bickel". Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University. 2012. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
- "Fisher Lecture — Past Award Recipients" (PDF). Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-12. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-11-18. Retrieved 2014-12-04.
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Further reading
- Ritov, Y. A. (2011). "A Random Walk with Drift: Interview with Peter J. Bickel". Statistical Science. 26: 150–159. arXiv:1106.2881. doi:10.1214/09-STS300. S2CID 62621269.
- Fan, Jianqing; Ritov, Ya'acov; Wu, Chien-Fu, eds. (2012). "Biography of Peter J. Bickel". Selected Works of Peter J. Bickel. Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN 9781461455448.
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Categories:- 1940 births
- American statisticians
- Romanian emigrants to the United States
- California Institute of Technology alumni
- University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- MacArthur Fellows
- Living people
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Commanders of the Order of Orange-Nassau
- Mathematical statisticians
- Network scientists