Alan E. Gelfand
Alan Enoch Gelfand (born April 17, 1945) is an American statistician, and is currently the James B. Duke Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University. Gelfand’s research includes substantial contributions to the fields of Bayesian statistics, spatial statistics and hierarchical modeling.
Alan Enoch Gelfand | |
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| Born | April 17, 1945 Bronx, New York |
| Education | City College of New York Stanford University |
| Known for | Gibbs sampling |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Connecticut Duke University |
| Thesis | Seriation of Multivariate Observations through Similarities (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | Herbert Solomon |
| Doctoral students | Bani K. Mallick Sudipto Banerjee |
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