| 词条 | Allan Birnbaum |
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Allan Birnbaum (May 27, 1923 – July 1, 1976) was an American statistician who contributed to statistical inference, foundations of statistics, statistical genetics, statistical psychology, and history of statistics. Life and careerBirnbaum was born in San Francisco. His parents were Russian-born Orthodox Jews. He studied mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, doing a premedical programme at the same time. After taking a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1945, he spent two years doing graduate courses in science, mathematics and philosophy, planning perhaps a career in the philosophy of science. One of his philosophy teachers, Hans Reichenbach, suggested he combine philosophy with science. He went to Columbia University to do a PhD with Abraham Wald but, when Wald died in a plane crash, Birnbaum asked Erich Leo Lehmann, who was visiting Columbia to take him on. Birnbaum's thesis and his early work was very much in the spirit of Lehmann's classic text Testing Statistical Hypotheses. Birnbaum stayed at Columbia until 1959 when he moved to the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, becoming a full Professor of Statistics in 1963. He travelled a good deal and liked Britain especially. In 1975 he accepted a post at the City University, London, and worked with The Open University on their course M341 (with Adrian Smith). He killed himself in 1976. The article in the Leading Personalities volume opens with the declaration, "Allan Birnbaum was one of the most profound thinkers in the field of foundations of statistics." The assessment is based on Birnbaum's 1962 article and the publications surrounding it. Birnbaum's argument for the likelihood principle generated great controversy; it implied, amongst other things, a repudiation of the approach of Wald and Lehmann, that Birnbaum had followed in his own research. Leonard Jimmie Savage opened the discussion by saying
Although Birnbaum made other contributions, none compared with this for impact or continuing resonance. Publications of Allan Birnbaum41 papers are listed by Barnard and Godambe. The first appeared in 1953 and the last, posthumously, in 1977. The most celebrated is the 1962 paper on the likelihood principle.
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External linksFor Birnbaum’s PhD students see {{MathGenealogy|id=33041}} For information about Birnbaum's correspondence with R. A. Fisher (and a copy of one letter) see
13 : 1923 births|1976 deaths|Writers from San Francisco|University of California, Berkeley alumni|American statisticians|American people of Russian-Jewish descent|Academics of City, University of London|Fellows of the American Statistical Association|Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area|American science writers|20th-century American mathematicians|20th-century American non-fiction writers|Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty |
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