Steve Selvin

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Steve Selvin (* 1941 ) is a biostatistician who has taught and researched at UC Berkeley since 1972 .

Selvin joined the School of Public Health at Berkeley University in 1972 , where he was promoted to head of the biostatistics department in 1977. In addition, he also served as director of the undergraduate program ( Undergraduate study ) of the School of Public Health . In addition to his work in Berkeley, Selvin also worked from 1990 to 1998 as a professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan and since 2005 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore .

For his teaching Selvin was from his university in 1983 with the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award and in 1998 with School of Public Health Distinguished Teaching Award honored. He wrote over 200 journal articles and wrote several specialist books in the field of biostatistics and epidemiology.

In February 1975 Selvin published a letter to the editor in the American Statistician , in which he first described the so-called Monty Hall problem and presented a solution. After receiving several letters criticizing his solution, he published another letter to the editor in August of the same year with the title On the Monty Hall Problem , in which he presented a solution with conditional probabilities and explicitly (previously missing) assumptions about moderator behavior . The title of this second letter to the editor is the first use of the term Monty Hall problem in literature. After Marilyn vos Savant published the problem in her column in Parade Magazine in 1990 , it became the subject of a controversial debate and led to numerous publications around the world in the following years.

Selvin is married to the artist Nancy Selvin and the epidemiologist Elizabeth Selvin is his daughter.

Works (selection)

  • A problem in Probability . The American Statistician, February 1975 (first publication of the Monty Hall problem, online copy at JSTOR )
  • On the Monty Hall problem . The American Statistician, August 1975 (first verbatim mention of the term "Monty Hall Problem", online copy (excerpt) )
  • Statistical Analysis of Epidemiologic Data . Oxford University Press, New York, 1991, 3rd edition 2004, ISBN 0-19-517280-9
  • Modern Applied Biostatistical Methods Using SPLUS. Oxford University Press, New York, 1998, ISBN 0-19-512025-6
  • Epidemiologic Analysis: a case-oriented approach. Oxford University Press, New York, 2001, ISBN 0-19-514489-9
  • Biostatistics: How it works. Prentice Hall, New York, 2004, ISBN 0-13-046616-6
  • Survival Analysis for epidemiologic and Medical Research Analysis of Epidemiologic Data . Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-89519-4
  • Statistical Tools for Epidemiologic Research . Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-975596-7
  • The Joy Of Statistics: A Treasury Of Elementary Statistical Tools And Their Applications . Oxford University Press, 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Berkeley Citation awarded to biostatistician Steve Selvin for long history of achievement . School of Public Health (press release), Berkeley, October 17, 2011
  2. ↑ Dr Steve Selvin ( Memento from October 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 119 kB). Biography on the website of the Association of Schools of Public Health (accessed September 30, 2012)
  3. ↑ Jason Rosenhouse: The Monty Hall Problem . Oxford University Press 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-536789-8 , pp. 20-22, 31
  4. ↑ https://twitter.com/LizSelvin/status/1278716460219711489 (accessed August 18, 2020)
  5. ↑ Peterson, Susan H. "Dynamic Still Lifes of Form and Beauty," Airbrush Digest , September / October 1984, p. 24-32.
personal data
SURNAME Selvin, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biostatistician, inventor of the Monty Hall problem
DATE OF BIRTH 1941