Stephen M. Stigler

(1941-08-10) August 10, 1941

Minneapolis, US

Carleton College (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)

Stigler's law of eponymy

Robust statistics

University of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Chicago
Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Linear Functions of Order Statistics  (1967)

Lucien Le Cam

Lee-Jen Wei
Alan Agresti

www.stat.uchicago.edu/~stigler/

Biography[edit]

Stigler was born in Minneapolis.[2] He received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation was on linear functions of order statistics, and his advisor was Lucien Le Cam. His research has focused on statistical theory of robust estimators and the history of statistics.


Stigler taught at University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1979 when he joined the University of Chicago. In 2006, he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society,[3] and is a past president (1994) of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.


His father was the economist George Stigler, who was a close friend of Milton Friedman.

. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-6744-0341-3.

The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900

Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1999.  978-0-6740-0979-0.

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The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2016.  978-0-6740-8891-7.

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Casanova’s Lottery: The History of a Revolutionary Game of Chance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2022.  9780226820781.

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Chicago school of economics

George Stigler

List of examples of Stigler's law

Milton Friedman

Stigler's law of eponymy

Official CV of Stephen M. Stigler (September 2015)

Archived 2013-04-28 at the Wayback Machine

Homepage at the University of Chicago

Mathematics Genealogy Project: Stephen Mack Stigler

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Stephen Stigler