Peter J. Bickel

Peter John Bickel
Born1940 (age 84–85)
Bucharest, Romania
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Awards
  • MacArthur Fellow (1984)
  • COPSS Presidents' Award (1981)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Thesis Asymptotically Nonparametric Statistical Inference in the Multivariate Cases
Doctoral advisorErich Leo Lehmann
Doctoral students
Other notable students
  • Donald Andrews
  • Mark van der Laan

Peter John Bickel (born 1940) is an American statistician[1] and Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.[2] Bickel has made contributions to bootstrapping, robust statistics, machine learning, and other areas of statistics.[1]

Education and career

Bickel studied physics at the California Institute of Technology.[3] He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a Ph.D., in 1963, where he studied under Erich Leo Lehmann.[4]

His students include C.F. Jeff Wu, Jianqing Fan, Katerina Kechris, Elizaveta Levina, and Donald Andrews.[5]

Personal

He married Nancy Kramer in 1964; they have two children.[6]

Awards

  • 1970 Guggenheim Fellow[7]
  • 1973 Fellow of the American Statistical Association[8]
  • 1981 the recipient of COPSS Presidents' Award[9]
  • 1984 MacArthur Fellow
  • 1986 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[10]
  • 1986 Member of the National Academy of Sciences[11]
  • 1986 Honorary Doctorate degree from Hebrew University, Jerusalem
  • 1995 Foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences[12]
  • 2006 Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau[13]
  • 2013 R. A. Fisher Lectureship[14]
  • 2014 Honorary Doctorate degree from ETH Zurich[15]

References

  1. 1 2 "Biography of Peter J. Bickel" (PDF). Workshop on Frontiers of Statistics In honor of Peter Bickel's 65th birthday. Princeton University. May 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-03-16.
  2. ↑ "Peter J. Bickel".
  3. ↑ Reminiscences of a statistician: the company I kept, Erich Leo Lehmann, Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-71596-4
  4. ↑ Frontiers in statistics: dedicated to Peter John Bickel in honor of his 65th birthday, Jianqing Fan, Hira L. Koul, Imperial College Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-86094-670-7, page 1
  5. ↑ Fan, Jianqing; Ritov, Ya'acov; Wu, C. F. Jeff, eds. (2012), "Ph.D. Students of Peter J. Bickel", Selected Works of Peter J. Bickel, Selected Works in Probability and Statistics, vol. 13, Springer Science+Business Media, pp. xxxi–xxxiii, ISBN 9781461455448
  6. ↑ Frontiers in statistics: dedicated to Peter John Bickel in honor of his 65th birthday, Jianqing Fan, Hira L. Koul, Imperial College Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-86094-670-7, page xix
  7. ↑ "Peter J. Bickel - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2012-08-19. Retrieved 2010-03-25.
  8. ↑ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-08-20.
  9. ↑ "COPSS Awards - Recipients". Archived from the original on 2016-03-12. Retrieved 2011-05-08.
  10. ↑ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Peter Bickel". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  12. ↑ "P.J. Bickel". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 21 May 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  13. ↑ "James Francis Hannan Visiting Scholars: Professor Peter J. Bickel". Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University. 2012. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
  14. ↑ "Fisher Lecture — Past Award Recipients" (PDF). Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-12. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
  15. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-11-18. Retrieved 2014-12-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

Further reading

  • Ritov, Y. A. (2011). "A Random Walk with Drift: Interview with Peter J. Bickel". Statistical Science. 26: 150–159. arXiv:1106.2881. doi:10.1214/09-STS300. S2CID 62621269.
  • Fan, Jianqing; Ritov, Ya'acov; Wu, Chien-Fu, eds. (2012). "Biography of Peter J. Bickel". Selected Works of Peter J. Bickel. Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN 9781461455448.
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