Thomas S. Ferguson | |
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Born | Oakland, California, USA | December 14, 1929
Spouse | Beatriz Rossello |
Children | Chris Ferguson |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | On the Existence of Linear Regression in Linear Structural Relations (1956) |
Doctoral advisor | Lucien Le Cam |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Mathematical statistics Game theory |
Institutions | University of California,Los Angeles |
Doctoral students | Lynn Kuo |
Website | www |
Thomas Shelburne Ferguson (born December 14,1929) is an American mathematician and statistician. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics at the University of California,Los Angeles. [1]
Ferguson was born in Oakland,California and was raised nearby in Alameda,California. He majored in mathematics at the University of California,Berkeley,and completed his Ph.D. there in 1956. [1] His dissertation had two separately-titled parts,On Existence of Linear Regression in Linear Structural Relations and A Method of Generating Best Asymptotically Normal Estimates with Application to the Estimation of Bacterial Densities;it was supervised by Lucien Le Cam. [2]
After another year teaching at Berkeley,he moved to the University of California,Los Angeles in 1957. [1]
Ferguson is the author of:
His research contributions include the analysis of the "big match" zero-sum game with David Blackwell,a result that eventually led to the proof of existence of equilibrium values for limiting average payoff in all stochastic games;the Ferguson distribution on prior probability;Ferguson's Dirichlet process; [1] Ferguson's pairing property in the analysis of misère subtraction games; [1] [6] and contributions to the theory of optimal stopping as e.g. co-authored work on Robbins' problem. [1]
Ferguson was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1967, [1] and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1985. He was given the Belgian International Francqui Chair of Science in 1998. A festschrift in Ferguson's honor edited by F. Thomas Bruss and Lucien Le Cam was published in 2000. [1]
Ferguson married mathematician Beatriz Rossello,and is the father of poker player Chris Ferguson. [1] [7] He has coauthored papers with Chris Ferguson on the mathematics of poker and other games of chance.
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