James O. Berger

James Orvis "Jim" Berger (born April 6, 1950 in Minneapolis ) is an American mathematical statistician .

James O. Berger, Oberwolfach 2005

Berger studied at Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in 1971, his master's degree in 1973 and he received his doctorate there in 1974 under Lawrence David Brown (1940-2018) (Admissibility in Location Parameter Problems). He became Assistant Professor in 1974 and later Professor of Statistics at Purdue University . Since 1997 he has been a professor at Duke University . From 2002 to 2010 he was also director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute there.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , foreign member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences (2002) and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics , of which he was President in 1995/96, of the American Statistical Association (whose Bayesian Statistics department he headed in 1995) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . From 1998 to 2000 he was co-editor of the Annals of Statistics. He was a Guggenheim Fellow , Sloan Research Fellow, and RA Fisher Lecturer (2001) and Wald Lecturer. In 2004 he became an honorary doctorate from Purdue University and in 2011 an honorary professor from East China Normal University. For 2015 he was awarded the Wilks Memorial Award .

Berger dealt with Bayesian statistics , the basics of statistics, statistical decision theory, simulation, selection of models and connections between statistics and astronomy and the interface between computer models and statistics.

Fonts

• Statistical decision theory and Bayesian analysis, Springer Verlag 1985, 2nd edition 1993
• with Robert Wolpert: The likelihood principle, Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1988

Web links

• Homepage, Duke University

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ↑ James O. Berger in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)