Frank Proschan

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Frank Proschan (born April 7, 1921 in New York City , † December 28, 2003 ) was an American mathematician and mathematical statistician who is considered the founder of modern reliability theory with Richard E. Barlow .

Life

Proschan received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from City College of New York in 1941 and his master's degree from George Washington University in 1948 . From 1941 to 1952 he was with the National Bureau of Standards, 1952 to 1960 at Sylvana Electric Products and 1960 to 1970 in the Boeing research laboratories. He received his PhD in 1959 from Stanford University under Herbert Scarf (Polya-Type Distributions in Renewal Theory, with an Application to an Inventory Problem). He was Professor of Statistics at Florida State University since 1970 , and Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor since 1984 . In 1992 he retired.

Proschan was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1964/65 , at Texas A&M University in 1967 and at Stanford University from 1960 to 1970.

In 1991 he and Richard E. Barlow received the John von Neumann Theory Prize . In 1982 he received the Wilks Medal Award from the American Statistical Association. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association .

Fonts

  • with Richard E. Barlow: Mathematical Theory of Reliability, Wiley 1965, SIAM 1996 (with contributions by Larry C. Hunter)
  • with Barlow: Statistical theory of reliability and life testing: probability models, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1975
  • with Myles Hollander: The statistical exorcist: dispelling statistics anxiety, Marcel Dekker 1984
  • with Josip Pečarić , YL Tong: Convex functions, partial orderings, and statistical applications, Academic Press 1992

literature

  • Myles Hollander, Albert W. Marshall A conversation with Frank Proschan , Statistical Science, Volume 10, 1995, 118-133

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Proschan
  2. ↑ Frank Proschan in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Proschan, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2003