About Milton Sobel
Lived 1919 – 2002 (aged 83). Milton Sobel was a statistician.
Milton Sobel (August 30, 1919 – December 31, 2002) was an American mathematician and statistician professor emeritus of statistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He made notable contributions in the areas of decision theory, sequential analysis, selection and ranking, reliability analysis, combinatorial problems, and Dirichlet processes. Of particular note are his contributions in selection and ranking, a series of work on sequential analysis and reliability along with Benjamin Epstein.
He obtained his B.A. in mathematics (1940) from the City College of New York, M.A. in mathematics (1946) and Ph.D. in mathematical statistics (advisor: Abraham Wald, 1951) from Columbia University. NIH Fellowship (1968–1969) Elected membership in the International Statistical Institute (1974)
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Who was Milton Sobel?
American statistician
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Milton Sobel was born on 30 August 1919.
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Milton Sobel died on 31 December 2002.
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Milton Sobel was a statistician.
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