Donald Richards (statistician)

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Donald St. P. Richards
Born
Alma mater University of the West Indies
AwardsFellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1999
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013
Scientific career
Fields Statistics, Probability
Institutions Pennsylvania State University
University of Virginia
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of the West Indies

Donald St. P. Richards (born 1955, in Mandeville, Jamaica) is an American statistician conducting research on multivariate statistics, zonal polynomials, distance correlation, total positivity, and hypergeometric functions of matrix argument. He currently serves as a distinguished professor [1] of statistics at the Pennsylvania State University, [2] and is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics [3] and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [4]

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Richards obtained his PhD in 1978 at the University of the West Indies, where the statistician Rameshwar D. Gupta was his doctoral advisor. [5] In 1999, he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. [6] In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [7]

Personal life

Richards became an American citizen in 1990. He was married to Mercedes Richards, an American Jamaican-born professor of astronomy and astrophysics, until her death in 2016. [8]

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References

  1. "Richards named distinguished professor of statistics". psu.edu. Retrieved 25 Jan 2023.
  2. "DLMF: Donald St. P. Richards". dlmf.nist.gov. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  3. "Honored IMS Fellows". imstat.org. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  4. "List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". ams.org. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  5. Donald Richards at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. . Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  7. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  8. Wright, Jason (4 February 2016). "Mercedes Richards (1955-2016)". sites.psu.edu. Retrieved 16 July 2018.