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John Milton contributed the epigraphs majorizing the text of Kiefer.Wolfowitz

Epigraphs

I like epigraphs!

"true eloquence I find to be none, but the serious and hearty love of truth: And that whose mind so ever is fully possest with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words (by what I can expresse) like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command, and in well order'd files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places." (John Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus)

"when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for."

"For he who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declare as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity."

(John Milton, Areopagitica)

We try to admit errors and learn from our mistakes, like Meno's house slave.

About Me

Name "Kiefer.Wolfowitz"

Jack C. Kiefer and Jacob Wolfowitz were two statisticians and mathematical scientists. Their eponymous theorems include the "Kiefer-Wolfowitz" (first-order) optimality criterion in the optimal design of statistical experiments and also "Kiefer-Wolfowitz" methods of stochastic approximation (estimating an optimum when using only noisy function evaluations).

Professional interests

I am a statistician by profession and a mathematical scientist by schooling and avocation.

In statistics, my interests include experimentation, computational statistics, and statistical inference. In the statistical decision theory of Abraham Wald, optimal statistical procedures solve problems of stochastic optimization, which may be sequential; researchers following Wald and Le Cam study such statistical-decision problems in the setting of Riesz spaces, especially Banach lattices. In statistics and optimization and related mathematical sciences, central ideas include order, convexity, and nonsmooth analysis. The formalism of maximizing expected utility and methods for stochastic programming are useful for operations research and economic decisions, e.g. for designing optimal experiments.

Misplaced Pages articles

I usually expand or improve articles: I have contributed to the articles on the optimal design of experiments and on crossover studies. I have even started a few articles, including Robert V. Hogg and Oscar Kempthorne, which others should help expand and improve.

(I typically edit as a hobby and pro-bono service, when my brain is too tired to do research, and when I'm not teaching 100%.)

Correspondence in other languages

I welcome questions in other languages on my Talk page. I also read Swedish, and I can read basic Spanish and basic French. However, there is some linguistic chauvanism and apartheid policies on the various Misplaced Pages projects, and at least one editor has been cautioned not to write in Swedish, I'm sorry to say.

Peculiarities

I have trouble seeing the difference between dashes --- between the small dash - (deprecated) and large dash — (recommended, although it isn't on my keyboard).

I don't know how to use a spell-checker (or grammar checker) yet. However, I intend to read about Misplaced Pages:Text editor support.

I use the subjunctive mode in English.

I should better withstand being provoked/goaded by feisty editors!

References

I've edited for roughly one year, so I should have read this already:

I have emulated good editing, and have benefitted from the suggestions (and criticism) from more experienced editors. Nonetheless, I should read a style manual:

Some essays are especially informative:

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en-5This user can contribute with a professional level of English.
sv-2Denna användare har kunskaper på mellannivå i svenska.
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fr-1Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.
This user is a statistician.
This user is a participant in WikiProject Statistics.
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WikiProject Mathematics.
This user strives to be the worthy knight and champion of Charles Sanders Peirce.
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In appreciation of your work on Shlomo Sawilowsky‎, I hereby award you this barnstar.--Iulus Ascanius (talk) 14:53, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
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