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]

Peter John Bickel
Born1940 (age 83–84)
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Thesis Asymptotically Nonparametric Statistical Inference in the Multivariate Cases
Doctoral advisorErich Leo Lehmann
Doctoral students
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Education and career

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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

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

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ a b "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)

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