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 and for the Samuels Conjecture involving a Chebyshev-type inequality for sums of independent, non-negative random variables.

After completing his undergraduate degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he became a graduate student at Stanford University. Samuels joined in 1964 the faculty of Purdue University and retired there in 2003 as professor emeritus of statistics and mathematics.

Selected publications 1965 1966 1968 1974 1976 1977 1980 1981 1986 1987 1989 1990

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