Richard E. Barlow

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Richard Eugene Barlow (born January 12, 1931 in Galesburg (Illinois) ) is an American mathematician and mathematical statistician who, along with Frank Proschan, is considered the founder of modern reliability theory. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley .

Life

Barlow received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Knox College in 1953 and his master's degree from the University of Oregon in 1955 . In 1960 he received his PhD in Mathematical Statistics from Stanford University under Samuel Karlin (Applications of Semi-Markov Processes to Counter and Reliability Problems). In 1960/61 he was at the Institute for Defense Analyzes and from 1961 to 1963 at General Telephone and from 1963 to his retirement in 1999 professor at Berkeley.

He was a visiting scientist at the Boeing Laboratories in 1966 and at Florida State University in 1975/76 (with Frank Proschan). From 1963 to 1969 he was a consultant to the Rand Corporation .

In addition to reliability theory, he dealt with probabilistic modeling in Bayesian statistics and statistical data analysis.

In 1991 he and Frank Proschan received the John von Neumann Theory Prize . He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association .

He has been married since 1956 and has four children.

Fonts

  • with Frank Proschan: Mathematical Theory of Reliability, Wiley 1965, SIAM 1996 (with contributions by Larry C. Hunter)
  • with Proschan: Statistical theory of reliability and life testing: probability models, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1975
  • Engineering Reliability, SIAM 1998
  • with C. Pereira: Conditional Independence and Probabilistic Influence Diagrams, in: Topics in Statistical Dependence, IMS Lecture Notes-Monograph series Vol. 16, 1992.

literature

  • Henry Block A conversation with Richard Barlow , Statistical Science, 16, 2001, 312-390, online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Richard E. Barlow in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Barlow, Richard E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barlow, Richard Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Galesburg, Illinois