Emanuel Parzen | |
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| Born | April 21, 1929 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | February 6, 2016 (aged 86) Boca Raton, Florida, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard College University of California, Berkeley |
| Awards | Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Medal (1994) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | Columbia University Stanford University SUNY Buffalo Texas A&M |
| Doctoral advisor | Michel Loève |
| Doctoral students | Grace Wahba Don Ylvisaker |
Emanuel Parzen (April 21, 1929 – February 6, 2016) was an American statistician. He worked and published on signal detection theory and time series analysis, where he pioneered the use of kernel density estimation (also known as the Parzen window[1] in his honor). Parzen was the recipient of the 1994 Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Medal of the American Statistical Association.[2]