Obituary
Theophilos (Theo) Cacoullos, who passed away in 2020, was an IMS Fellow and founder of the Greek Statistical Institute. His research work covered topics in multivariate analysis, characterizations of distributions, variance bounds for univariate and multivariate distributions and many others. His obituary is here.
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Theophilos N. Cacoullos was born April 5, 1932, in the village of Pachna in Limassol district, Cyprus. After his secondary education in Limassol (valedictorian, 1950), he studied mathematics at the University of Athens and earned his diploma (BSc) in 1954. Then, Cacoullos returned to Cyprus and worked for two years…
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