Jack Carl Kiefer | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Jack_Kiefer_(statistician)_1979.jpg) Jack Kiefer in 1979 | |
| Born | January 25, 1924 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
| Died | August 10, 1981 (aged 57) Berkeley, California, USA |
| Education | MIT Columbia University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Cornell University University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Abraham Wald Jacob Wolfowitz |
| Doctoral students | Lawrence D. Brown Ker-Chau Li |
Jack Carl Kiefer (January 25, 1924 – August 10, 1981) was an American mathematical statistician at Cornell University (1952 to 1979) and the University of California, Berkeley (1979 to 1981). His research interests included the optimal design of experiments, which was his major research area, as well as a wide variety of topics in mathematical statistics.[1]