Stephen Mitchell Samuels
Stephen Mitchell Samuels (1938, Brooklyn – July 26, 2012, Indiana) was a statistician and mathematician, known for his work on the secretary problem[1] and for the Samuels Conjecture involving a Chebyshev-type inequality for sums of independent, non-negative random variables.[2][3]
After completing his undergraduate degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he became a graduate student at Stanford University.[1] There he received his Ph.D. in 1964 with a thesis supervised by Samuel Karlin.[4] Samuels joined in 1964 the faculty of Purdue University and retired there in 2003 as professor emeritus of statistics and mathematics.[1] He did research on various topics in probability theory and its applications, dynamic optimization, and disclosure risk assessment for statistical microdata.[5]
Selected publications
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- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 1966
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 1968
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 1974
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 1976
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 1977
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 1980
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 1981
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 1986
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 1987
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 1989
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 1990
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 1992
References
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- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Samuels proved his conjecture for the case n = 3.
- ^ Stephen Mitchell Samuels at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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