| Pascal Massart | |
| Birth Date: | 23 January 1958 |
| Citizenship: | France |
| Alma Mater: | Paris-Sud University (PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | Quelques problèmes de vitesse de convergence pour des processus empiriques |
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| Thesis Year: | 1987 |
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| Doctoral Advisor: | Jean Bretagnolle |
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Pascal Massart (born 23 January 1958) is a French Statistician.
His work focuses on probability and statistics, notably the Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality,[1] the Bousquet inequality, the concentration inequality,[2] and the Efron-Stein inequality. With Lucien Birgé he worked on model selection.[3]
He received his Ph.D. in statistics from Paris-Sud University under Jean Bretagnolle. He has worked at the University of Paris-Sud and at the University of Lyon.
He was awarded the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1998. He was awarded the Prix Pierre-Simon de Laplace from the French Statistical Society in 2007 alongside Paul Deheuvels.[4] He was a lecturer at the European Congress of Mathematics in 2004 in Stockholm.