Joseph Born Kadane

Joseph Born Kadane
Born (1941-01-10) January 10, 1941 (age 83)
Alma materHarvard College (A.B.)
Stanford University (Ph.D) (1966)
Known forMaximum subarray problem, statistical inference, econometrics, statistical methods in social science, sequential problems
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University
Yale University
Center for Naval Analyses
ThesisComparison of Estimators in Simultaneous Equation Econometric Models when the Results are Small (1966)
Doctoral advisorHerman Chernoff
Doctoral studentsDon Berry
Giovanni Parmigiani

Joseph "Jay" Born Kadane (born January 10, 1941) is the Leonard J. Savage University Professor of Statistics, Emeritus in the Department of Statistics and Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. Kadane is one of the early proponents of Bayesian statistics, particularly the subjective Bayesian philosophy.