Joseph Born Kadane | |
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Born | Washington, D.C., U.S. | January 10, 1941
Alma mater | Harvard College (A.B.) Stanford University (Ph.D) (1966) |
Known for | Maximum subarray problem, statistical inference, econometrics, statistical methods in social science, sequential problems |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University Yale University Center for Naval Analyses |
Thesis | Comparison of Estimators in Simultaneous Equation Econometric Models when the Results are Small (1966) |
Doctoral advisor | Herman Chernoff |
Doctoral students | Don 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.