Stephen Elliott Fienberg was a professor emeritus in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department, Heinz College, and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University.
13 Facts About Stephen Fienberg
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Stephen Fienberg was on the Carnegie Mellon University faculty from 1980 and served as Dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Stephen 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.
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Stephen Fienberg was an expert on forensic science, the only statistician to serve on the National Commission on Forensic Science.
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Stephen Fienberg authored more than 400 publications, including six books, advised more than 30 Ph.
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Stephen Fienberg's publications included books on discrete multivariate analysis categorical data analysis, US census adjustment, and forensic science.
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Stephen Fienberg was a founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.
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Stephen Fienberg was an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
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Stephen Fienberg was a recipient of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Presidents' Award in 1982.
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In 2002, Fienberg received the Samuel S Wilks Award from the American Statistical Association for his distinguished career in statistics.
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Stephen Fienberg 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.
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Stephen Fienberg was awarded the Zellner Medal by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis in 2016.
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Stephen Fienberg was married to Joyce Fienberg and had two sons, Anthony and Howard, and six grandchildren.