Meyer Abraham Girshick (born in the Russian Empire, July 25, 1908; died in Palo Alto, California, USA, March 2, 1955) was a Russian-American statistician.[1]
Meyer Abraham Girshick | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 25, 1908 |
| Died | March 2, 1955 (aged 46) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Abraham Wald |
| Other advisors | Harold Hotelling |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Statistics |
| Sub-discipline | Sequential analysis Decision theory |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Doctoral students | Lincoln Moses |
Girshick emigrated to the United States from Russia in 1922. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1932 and studied in the graduate school at Columbia under Harold Hotelling from 1934 to 1937. From 1937 to 1946 he worked at various bureaus in the United States Department of Agriculture; he worked in the Statistical Research Group at Columbia University briefly during World War II and also worked briefly in the United States Census Bureau.[1][2][3] Girshick joined the RAND Corporation in the summer of 1947.[4]: §2 He became a professor of statistics at Stanford University in 1948, where he remained until his death.[1][2][3]
Girshick is known for his contributions to sequential analysis and decision theory.[2] He was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1952.[5] Girshick had previously been elected a fellow of the IMS in 1943[6] and a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1946.[7]
Selected works edit
- Contributions to the Theory of Sequential Analysis. I, M. A. Girshick, The Annals of Mathematical Statistics 17, #2 (June 1946), pp. 123–143, doi:10.1214/aoms/1177730976, JSTOR 2236034.
- Contributions to the Theory of Sequential Analysis, II, III, M. A. Girshick, The Annals of Mathematical Statistics 17, #3 (September 1946), pp. 282–298, doi:10.1214/aoms/1177730941, JSTOR 2236126.
- Theory of Games and Statistical Decisions, David Blackwell and M. A. Girshick, New York, London, Sydney: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1954.
References edit
- ^ a b c Memorial Resolution: Girshick, Meyer, 1908–1955 (Statistics), Stanford University Faculty Senate.
- ^ a b c "Girshick, Meyer A.", Kenneth J. Arrow, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Cengage. Accessed Dec. 23, 2023.
- ^ a b "Meyer Abraham Girshick 1908-1955", David Blackwell, Albert H. Bowker, The Annals of Mathematical Statistics 26, #3 (September 1955), pp. 365-367, doi:10.1214/aoms/1177728484, JSTOR 2236466
- ^ "The Oracle’s Personnel: The Ambivalent Conception of the Expert in the Delphi Method, 1948-1968", Christian Dayé, presentation prepared for the 108th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 10–13, 2013.
- ^ "Past Executive Committee Members", Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Accessed Dec. 23, 2023.
- ^ "Honored IMS fellows", Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Accessed Feb. 7, 2024.
- ^ Daly, J.F. (1955), Meyer Abraham Girshick 1908-1955, The American Statistician 9 #3, p. 6