Emanuel Parzen Scientist

Emanuel Parzen (born April 21, 1929) is an American statistician. He has worked and published on signal detection theory and time series analysis, where he pioneered the use of kernel density estimation (also known as the Parzen window in his honor). Parzen is the recipient of the 1994 Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Medal of the American Statistical Association.

Personal facts

Birth dateApril 21, 1929
Birth place
New York City
Nationality
United States
Education
University of California Berkeley
Harvard College

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Scientist

doctoral advisor
doctoral student
H. Joseph Newton
Nils Ylvisaker
Randall Eubank
Field of study
Mathematician

Emanuel Parzen on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.amstat.org/awards/index.cfm?fuseaction=wilks-cites
  2. http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mparzen/Parzen.html
  3. http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~eparzen