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Date of Birth
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01-January-1929
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Place of Birth
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Toronto
(Ontario, Canada)
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Nationality
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Canada
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Also know as
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Arthur Dempster, Arthur Pentland Dempster
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Profession
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Statistician, Mathematician
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Arthur Pentland Dempster is a Professor Emeritus in the Harvard University Department of Statistics. He was one of four faculty when the department was founded in 1957.
He was a Putnam Fellow in 1951. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1956. His thesis, titled The two-sample multivariate problem in the degenerate case, was written under the supervision of John Tukey.
Among his contributions to statistics are the Dempster–Shafer theory and the EM algorithm.
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