Meyer Abraham Girshick

Meyer Abraham Girshick
Born(1908-07-25)July 25, 1908
Russian Empire
DiedMarch 2, 1955(1955-03-02) (aged 46)
Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Academic background
Alma materColumbia University
Doctoral advisorAbraham Wald
Other advisorsHarold Hotelling
Academic work
DisciplineStatistics
Sub-disciplineSequential analysis
Decision theory
InstitutionsStanford University
Doctoral studentsLincoln Moses

Meyer Abraham Girshick (born in the Russian Empire, July 25, 1908; died in Palo Alto, California, USA, March 2, 1955) was a Russian-American statistician.[1]

Girshick emigrated to the United States from Russia in 1922. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1932 and studied in the graduate school at Columbia under Harold Hotelling from 1934 to 1937. From 1937 to 1946 he worked at various bureaus in the United States Department of Agriculture; he worked in the Statistical Research Group at Columbia University briefly during World War II and also worked briefly in the United States Census Bureau.[1][2][3] Girshick joined the RAND Corporation in the summer of 1947.[4]: §2  He became a professor of statistics at Stanford University in 1948, where he remained until his death.[1][2][3]

Girshick is known for his contributions to sequential analysis and decision theory.[2] He was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1952.[5] Girshick had previously been elected a fellow of the IMS in 1943[6] and a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1946.[7]

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