Robert Osher Schlaifer

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Robert Osher Schlaifer (born September 13, 1914 in Vermillion , South Dakota , † July 24, 1994 ) was an American mathematician , statistician , university professor and one of the pioneers of the Bayesian estimate .

Life

After attending school, Robert Osher Schlaifer, son of Osher Schlaifer and his wife Mabel Ellerbroek, began an undergraduate degree at Amherst College , which he completed in 1934 with a Bachelor of Arts (AB). After completing a postgraduate course in history, economics and physics, he first taught ancient history. After studying mathematics , he earned a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) from Harvard University in 1940 . He then became a lecturer in 1940 and assistant professor at Harvard University in 1942 . Having 1945-1946 as an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State College had taught, he returned in 1946 as an assistant professor at Harvard University back in 1951 and became an associate professor . In 1957 he took over a professorship in statistics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration , where he taught until his retirement in 1985. As a statistician, he was one of the pioneers of Bayesian estimation , an estimation function used in mathematical statistics which, in addition to the observed data, takes into account any prior knowledge about a parameter to be estimated .

Schlaifer became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971 . 1979 he was awarded his alma mater , Amherst College, an honorary doctorate in the subject Business Administration (Honorary Doctor of Business Administration) . His marriage to Geneviève Domergue on June 23, 1940 resulted in a son and a daughter.

Publications

In addition to his teaching activities, Schlaifer wrote various non-fiction books that dealt with questions of mathematical statistics. His works include:

  • Analysis of decisions under uncertainty , McGraw-Hill, New York 1959
  • Probability and statistics for business decisions. An introduction to managerial economics under uncertainty , McGraw-Hill, New York 1959
  • Student's manual for probability and statistics for business decisions , McGraw-Hill, London 1959
  • Teacher's manual for probability and statistics for business decisions , McGraw-Hill, New York 1959
  • Teacher's solutions manual to accompany Analysis of decisions under uncertainty , McGraw-Hill, London 1969
  • Introduction to statistics for business decisions , McGraw-Hill, New York 1961
  • Computer programs for elementary decision analysis , Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, Boston 1971

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1950-1999 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
personal data
SURNAME Schlaifer, Robert Osher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician, statistician, and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Vermillion , South Dakota
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1994