Charles Stein (statistician)

<!-- Deleted image removed: -->Charles M. Stein (born March 22, 1920), an American mathematical statistician, is emeritus professor of statistics at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D in 1947 at Columbia University with advisor Abraham Wald. Known for Stein's example in decision theory as well as Stein's method, concerning the approximation of probability distributions, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Works

• Approximate Computation of Expectations, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Hayward, CA, 1986.

Interviews

• Morris H. DeGroot A Conversation with Charles Stein, Statistical Science, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Nov., 1986), pp.&nbsp;454–462

See also

• James–Stein estimator
• Stein's lemma
• Stein's method
• Stein's unbiased risk estimate
• Stein's loss

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