George Casella (January 22, 1951 – June 17, 2012) was a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. He died from multiple myeloma.[2]
George C. Casella | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 22, 1951 |
| Died | June 17, 2012 (aged 61) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Fordham University Purdue University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Rutgers University Cornell University University of Florida |
| Thesis | Minimax Ridge Regression Estimation (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leon Jay Gleser[1] |
| Doctoral students | |
Academic career
editCasella completed his undergraduate education at Fordham University and graduate education at Purdue University. He served on the faculty of Rutgers University, Cornell University, and the University of Florida. His contributions focused on the area of statistics including Monte Carlo methods, model selection, and genomic analysis.[2] He was particularly active in Bayesian and empirical Bayes methods, with works connecting with the Stein phenomenon, on assessing and accelerating the convergence of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, as in his Rao–Blackwellization technique,[3] and recasting lasso as Bayesian posterior mode estimation with independent Laplace priors.[4]
Awards
editCasella was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1988, and he was made an Elected Fellow of the International Statistical Institute in 1989. In 2009, he was made a Foreign Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.[5]
Selected bibliography
edit- Casella, George; Lehmann, E. L. (1998). Theory of point estimation. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-98502-6.
- Lee Berger, Roger; Casella, George (2002). Statistical inference. Stamford, Connecticut: Thomson Learning. ISBN 0-534-24312-6.
- Casella, George; Robert, Christian P. (2004). Monte Carlo statistical methods. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-21239-6.
- McCulloch, Charles E.; Shayle R. Searle; Casella, George (2006). Variance components. New York: Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 0-470-00959-4.
- Casella, George (2008). Statistical design. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-75965-4.
- Casella, George; Robert, Christian P. (2009). Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R (Use R). Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4419-1575-7.
- Casella, George; Wu, Rongling; Changxing Ma (2010). Statistical Genetics of Quantitative Traits: Linkage, Maps and QTL (Statistics for Biology and Health). Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4419-1912-0.
References
edit- ^ George Casella at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Obituary: George Casella, 1951-2012". IMS Bulletin. Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Feb 27, 2013. Archived from the original on March 6, 2013. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
- ^ Casella, G (1996). "Rao-Blackwellisation of sampling schemes". Biometrika. 83 (1): 81–94. doi:10.1093/biomet/83.1.81. JSTOR 2337434.
- ^ Park, Trevor; Casella, George (2008). "The Bayesian Lasso" (PDF). Journal of the American Statistical Association. 103 (482): 681–686. doi:10.1198/016214508000000337. S2CID 11797924. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2014-11-07.
- ^ Casella, George. "VITA" (PDF). Retrieved 4 November 2012.
External links
edit- "George Casella Home Page". Retrieved 4 November 2012.
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