Alan Enoch Gelfand | |
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Born | |
Education | City College of New York Stanford University |
Known for | Gibbs sampling |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Connecticut Duke University |
Thesis | Seriation of Multivariate Observations through Similarities (1969) |
Doctoral advisor | Herbert Solomon |
Doctoral students |
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Alan Enoch Gelfand (born April 17, 1945) is an American statistician, and is currently the James B. Duke Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University.[1][2] Gelfand’s research includes substantial contributions to the fields of Bayesian statistics, spatial statistics and hierarchical modeling.