Stephen Fienberg Explained

Stephen Fienberg
Birth Date:27 November 1942
Birth Place:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Birth Name:Stephen Elliott Fienberg
Fields:Statistics
Workplaces:Carnegie Mellon University
Alma Mater:Harvard University (PhD)
University of Toronto (BSc)
Doctoral Advisor:Frederick Mosteller
Notable Students:David Blei (postdoc)
Thesis Title:The Estimation of Cell Probabilities in Two-Way Contingency Tables
Thesis Url:http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/003851063/catalog
Thesis Year:1968
Known For:Log-linear models, Contingency tables
Awards:COPSS Presidents' Award, R. A. Fisher Lectureship

Stephen Elliott Fienberg (27 November 1942 – 14 December 2016) was a professor emeritus[1] (formerly the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science) in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department, Heinz College, and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University.[2] Fienberg was the founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application and of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.

Early life and education

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Fienberg earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Toronto in 1964, a Master of Arts degree in statistics in 1965, and a Ph.D. in statistics in 1968 from Harvard University for research supervised by Frederick Mosteller.[3]

Career and research

Fienberg was on the Carnegie Mellon University faculty from 1980 and served as Dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.[2] He became a U.S. citizen in 1998.

Fienberg was one of the foremost social statisticians in the world, and was well known for his work in log-linear modeling for categorical data, the statistical analysis of network data, and methodology for disclosure limitation. He was also an expert on forensic science, the only statistician to serve on the National Commission on Forensic Science.[4]

He authored more than 400 publications, including six books, advised more than 30 Ph.D. students, and could claim more than 105 descendants in his mathematical genealogy.His publications included books on discrete multivariate analysis[5] categorical data analysis,[6] US census adjustment,[7] [8] and forensic science.[9] He was a founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.[10] [11] and of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.[12]

Awards and honors

Fienberg was an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences,[13] an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[14] a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[15] a fellow of the American Statistical Association[16] and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[17]

He was a recipient of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Presidents' Award in 1982.[18] [19] In 2002, Fienberg received the Samuel S. Wilks Award from the American Statistical Association for his distinguished career in statistics.[4] He received the inaugural Statistical Society of Canada's Lise Manchester Award in 2008 in recognition of his application of statistics to problems of public interest.[4] In 2015, he received the Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research from the National Institute of Statistical Sciences,[20] and the R. A. Fisher Lectureship from COPSS in 2015.[21] He was awarded the Zellner Medal by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) in 2016.[22]

Selected publications

Personal life

Stephen Fienberg was married to Joyce Fienberg and had two sons, Anthony and Howard, and six grandchildren. He died on 14 December 2016.[25] [6] Joyce Fienberg died on 27 October 2018. She was one of eleven worshippers murdered during the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting at the Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[26]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Emeritus Celebration for Steve Fienberg. October 15, 2016 . NSF-Census Research Network . 2016-12-01.
  2. Web site: Erosheva . Elena . Slavkovic . Aleksandra . Obituary: Stephen E. Fienberg, 1942–2016 . Institute of Mathematical Statistics . 28 October 2021. April 1, 2017 . en.
  3. PhD . Stephen Elliot. Feinberg . The estimation of cell probabilities in two-way contingency tables . Harvard University . 1968 . harvard.edu. 500191808 .
  4. News: Rea . Shilo . Obituary: Internationally Acclaimed Statistician Stephen E. Fienberg Changed the Field and Brought Statistics to Science and Public Policy . 28 October 2021 . Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences News . Carnegie Mellon University . December 14, 2016 . en.
  5. Carriquiry . Alicia L. . Reid . Nancy . Slavković . Aleksandra B. . Stephen Elliott Fienberg 1942–2016, Founding Editor of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application . Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application . 7 March 2019 . 6 . 1 . 1–18 . 10.1146/annurev-statistics-030718-105334 . 2019AnRSA...6....1C . 151119508 . 27 March 2023 . en . 2326-8298. free .
  6. Mejia . Robin . Stephen E. Fienberg (1942–2016) . Nature . February 2017 . 542 . 7642 . 415 . 10.1038/542415a . 28230130 . 2017Natur.542..415M . 4454571 . en . 0028-0836. free .
  7. Book: Anderson . Margo J. . Fienberg . Stephen E. . Who Counts? The Politics of Census Taking in Contemporary America . 1999 . Russell Sage Foundation . 978-0-87154-257-1 . 28 October 2021.
  8. Web site: Who Counts? . Russell Sage Foundation . 2016-12-01.
  9. Book: The Polygraph and Lie Detection . National Research Council . Washington, DC . The National Academies Press . 2002-10-08 . 9780309263924 .
  10. Web site: Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality relaunched with special issue in honor of Stephen E. Fienberg . Labor Dynamics Institute . Cornell University, ILR School . 28 October 2021. January 4, 2019 . en.
  11. Web site: Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality. journalprivacyconfidentiality.org. 2019-09-28.
  12. 10.1146/annurev-statistics-022513-115703. What is Statistics?. 2014. Fienberg. Stephen E.. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. 1. 1. 1–9. 2014AnRSA...1....1F. free.
  13. Web site: Stephen Fienberg . National Academy of Sciences . 28 October 2021.
  14. Web site: List of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 12 January 2016.
  15. News: Fienberg, Stephen E. 2016-08-01. AAAS – The World's Largest General Scientific Society. 2016-12-01. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161202041520/https://www.aaas.org/content/fienberg-stephen-e. 2016-12-02.
  16. Web site: ASA Fellows List. Inc.. Advanced Solutions International. www.amstat.org. 2016-12-01.
  17. Web site: IMS Awards. Institute of Mathematical Statistics . 2016-12-01.
  18. Book: Lin . Xihong . Genest . Christian . Banks . David L. . Molenberghs . Geert . Scott . David W. . Wang . Jane-Ling . Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Science . March 26, 2014 . CRC Press . 12 . 9781482204988 . 28 October 2021.
  19. Web site: COPSS Awards Recipients . IMS . 28 October 2021.
  20. Web site: An Interview with Steve Fienberg, 2015 NISS Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research Winner . Amstat News . 2 May 2016 . 2016-12-01.
  21. Web site: Stephen Fienberg selected to give R.A. Fisher Lecture . Carnegie Mellon University . 28 October 2021. 2015.
  22. Web site: Zellner Medal . International Society for Bayesian Analysis . 28 October 2021.
  23. Haberman, Shelby J.. Review: Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice by Y. M. M. Bishop, S. E. Fienberg and P. W. Holland. The Annals of Statistics. July 1976. 4. 4. 817–820. 2958194. 10.1214/aos/1176343556. free.
  24. Kempthorne, Oscar. Oscar Kempthorne. A Review of R. A. Fisher: An Appreciation. Journal of the American Statistical Association. June 1983. 78. 382. 482–490. 2288664. 10.1080/01621459.1983.10478001.
  25. Web site: STEPHEN E. FIENBERG, 1942-2016. www.cmu.edu. 2016-12-14.
  26. News: Pittsburgh shooting: Who are the victims?. BBC News . 28 October 2018 . 2018-10-28.

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