Donald Rubin
Donald Bruce Rubin (born December 22, 1943) is an Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Harvard University, where he chaired the department of Statistics for 13 years. He also works at Tsinghua University in China and at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Donald Bruce Rubin | |
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| Born | Donald Bruce Rubin December 22, 1943 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Education | Princeton University (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
| Known for | Rubin causal model Expectation–maximization algorithm |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Educational Testing Service Princeton University University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Chicago Harvard University Tsinghua University Temple University |
| Thesis | The Use of Matched Sampling and Regression Adjustment in Observational Studies (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | William Gemmell Cochran |
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He is most well known for the Rubin causal model, a set of methods designed for causal inference with observational data, and for his methods for dealing with missing data.
In 1977 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
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