Maurice Bertram Priestley, Professor emeritus of the University of Manchester, UK, was an outstanding, influential and highly respected figure in the field of time series analysis. His book on Spectral Analysis and Time Series, first published in 1982 and reprinted several times, has become a standard reference on the…

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Wenbo V. Li, professor of mathematical sciences at the University of Delaware, died suddenly of heart failure on January 26, 2013, near his home in Newark, Delaware. He was 49 years old. Wenbo Li was born on October 27, 1963 in Harbin, China. After obtaining his Bachelor’s degree in applied…

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George Box. Photo: Brent Nicastro  “Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise.”    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland GEORGE EDWARD PELHAM BOX, professor emeritus of Statistics and of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Thursday, March 28, 2013, at the age of 93. George founded the…

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Bill Studden in 1970. Photo: Purdue University Department of Statistics William J. Studden passed away suddenly on March 19th, 2013. Bill was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on September 30, 1935. Professor Studden received his B.Sc. from McMaster University (1958) and his PhD in Statistics in 1962 from Stanford University…

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Donald Lyman Burkholder died in his sleep on April 14, 2013, in Urbana, Illinois. He was born January 19, 1927, in Octavia, Nebraska, the fourth of five children of Elmer and Susan (Rothrock) Burkholder. His mother had been a schoolteacher, and his father was a farmer who served on the…

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