H. A. David (photo courtesy of Iowa State University) Herbert Aron David, Emeritus Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University, Ames, passed away on July 14, 2014, in Columbia, Maryland, USA. At Iowa State he served as Director and Head of the Statistical Laboratory and Department…

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Prominent Polish statistician Witold Klonecki, born on September 28, 1930, died on August 10, 2012 at the age of 82. Witold Klonecki received a master degree in mathematics from the University of Poznań in 1955 and a PhD degree from the University of Wrocław in 1963. His PhD dissertation, “On…

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Photo courtesy of Rowan Lindley Dennis Lindley, a key figure in the modern Bayesian school of statistics, died on 14 December 2013 at the age of 90. The pervasive and growing influence of Bayesian methodology on data analysis and decision making might not have happened without the advocacy and persistence…

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Marc Yor speaking at a self-similarity conference in 2009. Photo: Murad Taqqu Marc Yor, one of the most distinguished probabilists in the world in recent decades, died suddenly on January 9, 2014, near his home in St. Chéron, France, at the age of 64. He was born on 24 July…

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John Alfred Bather, Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Sussex, died on September 7, 2012 at the age of 76, after suffering from myeloma. He was well known in both Europe and North America for his work on dynamic programming and decision theory. John was born on…

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