Stephen E. Fienberg

Career and research Fienberg was on the Carnegie Mellon University faculty from 1980 and served as Dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

He authored more than 400 publications, including six books, advised more than 30 Ph.D. students, and could claim more than 105 descendants in his mathematical genealogy. His publications included books on discrete multivariate analysis categorical data analysis, US census adjustment, and forensic science.

He was a founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality. and of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.

Awards and honors Fienberg was an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

He was a recipient of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Presidents' Award in 1982. In 2002, Fienberg received the Samuel S. Wilks Award from the American Statistical Association for his distinguished career in statistics. and the R. A. Fisher Lectureship from COPSS in 2015. He was awarded the Zellner Medal by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) in 2016. In 2009 Fienberg was recipient of the American Statistical Association's Founders Award.

Selected publications Bishop, Y. M. M., Fienberg, S. E. and Holland, P. W. (1975). Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA. Paperback edition (1977). A Citation Classic. Reprinted, by Springer-Verlag, New York (2007). Fienberg, S. E. and Hinkley, D. V., eds. (1980). R. A. Fisher: An Appreciation. Springer-Verlag, NY. 1st reprint 1989; 2nd reprint by Springer-Verlag, NY (2012). Fienberg, S. E. (1980). The Analysis of Cross-classified Categorical Data. 2nd Edition. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA. A Citation Classic. Reprinted, by Springer-Verlag, New York (2007). DeGroot, M. H., Fienberg, S. E., and Kadane, J. B., eds. (1986). Statistics and the Law. Wiley, New York. Wiley Classics Paperback edition (1994). Goldenberg, A., Zheng, A. X., Fienberg, S. E. and Airoldi, E. M. (2010) A Survey of Statistical Network Models. Now Publishers Inc.

Personal life Stephen Fienberg was married to Joyce Fienberg and had two sons, Anthony and Howard, and six grandchildren. He died on 14 December 2016.