Obituary
Professor Geetha Ramachandran, Professor of Statistics at the California State University at Sacramento passed away on February 18; she was 67. Professor Ramachandran worked in the areas of sampling and complex surveys and obtained her PhD from the Indian Statistical Institute, where she was a close academic associate of Debabrata…
On 9 January 2016, in Melbourne, Australia, the statistics community lost one of its greatest statisticians. Peter Hall was born in Sydney, Australia, to William Hall and distinguished radio astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott. He earned his degrees from the University of Sydney, the Australian National University (ANU) and the University of…
It is with great sadness that we report the passing away of Peter Gavin Hall on January 9, 2016, in Melbourne, Australia. He was 64.
During the past four decades Peter was a monumental figure in the statistics community, both internationally and within his home country of Australia.
Peter was…
IMS Fellow Emanuel Parzen, a respected figure in signal detection theory and time series analysis who, with Murray Rosenblatt, introduced the use of kernel density estimation (the so-called “Parzen window”), died February 6, 2016, in Boca Raton, Florida. He was 86.
Manny Parzen, who was born on April 21, 1929,…
Subramanian Panchapakesan — known as Kesan among his numerous friends and colleagues — passed away on January 28, 2016, in Chennai (formerly Madras), the city in which he was born on August 27, 1933. Kesan graduated from Vivekananda College in Chennai with a BA(Hons) degree in Mathematics in 1954 and…
