Professor

Stephen Elliott Fienberg

(
1942
2016
)
Carnegie Mellon University
;
Pittsburgh, PA
Statistician; Sociologist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Psychological Sciences
Elected
2007
Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Co-director of the Living Analytics Research Centre. Contributed to the analysis of categorical data, including the use of log-linear models for large sparse multi-way tables, capture-recapture problems, social networks and confidentiality and privacy, and to applications in diverse areas including biology, criminal justice, law, medicine, public health, public policy, and sociology. Books include Who Counts? The Politics of Census-Taking in Contemporary America (with M. Anderson), The Analysis of Cross-classified Categorical Data, and Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice.
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