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A Statistical Model

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At Harvard professors get to choose their titles. Bill Cochran was Professor of Statistics; Art Dempster is Professor of Theoretical Statistics. Since the start of Harvard’s department, Frederick Mosteller has been Professor of Mathematical Statistics.

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  1. Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Stephen E. Fienberg

  2. Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    David C. Hoaglin

  3. Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    William H. Kruskal

  4. Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA

    Judith M. Tanur

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Diaconis, P., Lehmann, E. (1990). Contributions to Mathematical Statistics. In: Fienberg, S.E., Hoaglin, D.C., Kruskal, W.H., Tanur, J.M. (eds) A Statistical Model. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3384-8_4

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