Stephen Stigler Explained

Stephen M. Stigler
Birth Date:	10 August 1941
Birth Place:	Minneapolis, US
Fields:	Robust statistics
Workplaces:	University of Chicago
Alma Mater:	Carleton College (BA)
Thesis Title:	Linear Functions of Order Statistics
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Thesis Year:	1967
Doctoral Advisor:	Lucien Le Cam
Doctoral Students:	Lee-Jen Wei Alan Agresti
Known For:	Stigler's law of eponymy
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Stephen Mack Stigler (born August 10, 1941) is the Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago.^[1] He has authored several books on the history of statistics; he is the son of the economist George Stigler.

Stigler is also known for Stigler's law of eponymy which states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer – whose first formulation he credits to sociologist Robert K. Merton.

Biography

Stigler was born in Minneapolis.^[2] He received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation was on linear functions of order statistics, and his advisor was Lucien Le Cam. His research has focused on statistical theory of robust estimators and the history of statistics.

Stigler taught at University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1979 when he joined the University of Chicago. In 2006, he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society,^[3] and is a past president (1994) of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

His father was the economist George Stigler, who was a close friend of Milton Friedman.

Bibliography

Books

Book: The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 . registration. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, MA . 1986. 978-0-6744-0341-3.
Book: Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods . Harvard University Press. Cambridge, MA . 1999 . 978-0-6740-0979-0.
Book: The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom . Harvard University Press. Cambridge, MA . 2016 . 978-0-6740-8891-7.
Book: Casanova’s Lottery: The History of a Revolutionary Game of Chance . University of Chicago Press. Chicago . 2022 . 9780226820781.

As editor

Book: Stigler, S. M. . American Contributions to Mathematical Statistics in the Nineteenth Century (2 Vols.) . Arno Press . New York . 1980 . 978-0-4051-2590-4.
Book: Stigler, S. M. . Wong, W. H. . Xu, D. . R. R. Bahadur's Lectures on the Theory of Estimation (Lecture Notes-Regional Monograph Series, Vol. 39) . Institute for Mathematical Statistics . Beachwood, OH . 2002 . 978-0-9406-0053-9.

Selected articles

——— The application of the method of least squares to the interpolation of sequences (translated by Ralph St. John and S. M. Stigler). Gergonne, J. D.. Historia Mathematica. 1. 4 . November -->. 1974 . 1815. 439–47. Ralph St. John and S. M. Stigler. translated by Ralph St. John and S. M. Stigler from the 1815 French. 10.1016/0315-0860(74)90034-2. Joseph Diaz Gergonne.
——— Gergonne's 1815 paper on the design and analysis of polynomial regression experiments. Stigler, Stephen M.. Historia Mathematica. 1. 4 . November -->. 1974. 431–39. 10.1016/0315-0860(74)90033-0.
——— Stigler. Stephen M.. Mathematical statistics in the early States. Annals of Statistics. March 1978. 6. 239–65. 10.1214/aos/1176344123. 2958876. 483118. 2. free.
- Book: Stigler , Stephen M. . Stephen M. Stigler. Mathematical Statistics in the Early States. Stephen M. Stigler. American Contributions to Mathematical Statistics in the Nineteenth Century, Volumes I & II. I. Arno Press. New York. 1980.
- Book: Stigler , Stephen M. . Stephen M. Stigler. Mathematical Statistics in the Early States. Peter Duren. A Century of Mathematics in America. III. American Mathematical Society. Providence, RI. 1989. 537–64.
——— 10.2307/2344804 . Stigler . Stephen M. . Stephen M. Stigler . Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, statistician . 1978 . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A . 141 . 3 . 287–322 . 2344804 .
——— Stigler, S. M. (1980). Stigler's law of eponymy. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 39: 147–58 (Merton Festschrift Volume, F. Gieryn (ed))
——— Stigler. Stephen M.. November 1983. Who discovered Bayes's theorem?. The American Statistician. 37. 4. 290–96. 2682766. Republished in Statistics on the table . 10.2307/2682766. 1712969. Stephen Stigler.
——— 10.1086/444032. Stephen M. Stigler. A Historical View of Statistical Concepts in Psychology and Educational Research. American Journal of Education. 101. 1. November 1992. 60–70. 143685203.

References

Catherine Behan (May 28, 1998) 1998 Quantrell Award: Stephen Stigler University of Chicago Chronicle. 17(17).
Web site: Reports of the President and the Treasurer - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Foundation. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial. 1976.
Web site: APS Member History. 2021-05-24. search.amphilsoc.org.