Gordon M. Kaufman

Gordon M. Kaufman
Born	United States
Alma mater	Yale University Harvard University
Awards	IAMG Distinguished Lectureship
Scientific career
Fields	Bayesian econometrics Multivariate analysis Risk analysis Geostatistics
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gordon M. Kaufman is Morris A. Adelman Professor of Management, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2014. ^[1] The International Association for Mathematical Geosciences appointed him as the Distinguished Lecturer for 2015. ^[2]

In 1985 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. ^[3]

Education

• BS in industrial and electrical engineering, Yale University (where he was a business associate of campus humor magazine The Yale Record ^[4] )
• MBA Harvard University
• DBA Harvard University

Selected books

• Gordon M. Kaufman (2011), Risk Analysis: From Prospect to Exploration Portfolio and Back. Nabu Press, 66 p. ^[5]
• Gordon M. Kaufman, Patrick J. Lee (1992), Are Wildcat Well Outcomes Dependent Or Independent?, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 p. ^[6]
• Giovanni Andreatta, Gordon M. Kaufman (1990), Software Reliability Modeling and Exponential Order Statistics, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 45 p. ^[7]
• Eytan Barouch, Gordon M. Kaufman (1976), Oil and Gas Discovery Modelled as Sampling Proportional to Random Size, M.I.T. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, 63 p. ^[8]
• Eytan Barouch, Gordon M. Kaufman (1976), On Sums of Lognormal Random Variables, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 42 p. ^[9]
• Gordon M. Kaufman (1963), Statistical decision and related techniques in oil and gas exploration. Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Series, Prentice Hall, 307 p. ^[10]

References

1. "Gordon Kaufman".
2. "Past Distinguished Lecturers - IAMG". Archived from the original on 2016-08-30. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
3. View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine , accessed 2016-10-29.
4. Yale Banner. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1955. p. 157.
5. Risk analysis: from prospect to exploration portfolio and back: Gordon M Kaufman: 9781245567381: Amazon.com: Books. ISBN   1245567381.
6. Kaufman, Gordon M.; Lee, Patrick J. (1992). "Are Wildcat Well Outcomes Dependent Or Independent?".
7. Andreatta, Giovanni; Kaufman, Gordon M. (1990). "Software Reliability Modeling and Exponential Order Statistics".
8. Barouch, Eytan (1976). "Oil and Gas Discovery Modelled as Sampling Proportional to Random Size".
9. Barouch, Eytan; Kaufman, Gordon Mayer (1976). "On Sums of Lognormal Random Variables".
10. Statistical decision and related techniques in oil and gas exploration (Ford Foundation. Doctoral dissertation series): Gordon M Kaufman: Amazon.com: Books. Prentice-Hall. January 1963.