Ronald (Ron) Pyke
Ronald Pyke
| Ronald (Ron) Pyke | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1931 Hamilton, Ontario |
| 💀Died | 2005 Seattle, Washington2005 |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Doctor of Philosophy – University of Washington |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | limit theory for spacings Brownian sheets semi-Markov renewal processes Chernoff-Savage theorems |
| 🏅 Awards | President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow of the American Statistical Association Elected member of the International Statistical Institute Jeffrey-Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society |
Ronald Pyke (24 November 1931 – 22 October 2005) was an American mathematician and statistician who contributed to nonparametric testing and estimation, probability inequalities, spacings and spacing processes, non-standard asymptotic theory, semi-Markov renewal processes, Brownian sheets, and applications of asymptotic theory to statistics.MathSciNetPubs
After first earning a Bachelor of Science degree (with honors) from McMaster University in 1953, Pyke obtained his PhD in 1956 at the University of Washington under the supervision of Z. W. Birnbaum. He visited Stanford University from 1956 to 1958, and Columbia University from 1958 to 1960, and returned to the University of Washington in 1960. He became a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington in 1960. He enjoyed sabbatical leaves in Cambridge (1964/1965), Imperial College (1970/1971) and the Technion (1988).
Pyke was actively involved in reliability work with Boeing through the Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories during the late 1950s and 1960s, and was a key member of the "Seattle school of reliability", a group which also included Bill Birnbaum, Tom Bray, Gordon Crawford, James Esary, George Marsaglia, Al Marshall, Frank Proschan, and Sam Saunders.
Pyke became a fellow of the IMS in (xxyy).[1]
Pyke served as founding Editor of the Annals of Probability (1973–1975),[2] as President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1987),[3] and as Vice-President of the International Statistical Institute in 1988-1989.
From the late 1960s through the decade of the 1970s Pyke lead the effort to create a separate department of statistics at the University of Washington. That effort resulted in the formation of the Department of Statistics in 1979: see Perlman, Scholz, and Shorack (2013) SIN for more about the role of Ronald Pyke in this process.
Selected publications[edit]
- Prentice, R. L.; Pyke, R. (1979). "Logistic disease incidence models and case-control studies". Biometrika. 66: 403–411. doi:10.1093/biomet/66.3.403. JSTOR 2335158. MR 0556730.
- Pyke, R. (1965). "Spacings (with discussion)". J. Royal Statistical Society Ser. B. 27: 395–449. JSTOR 2345793. MR 0216622.
- Pyke, R.; Shorack, G.R. (1968). "Weak convergence of a two-sample empirical process and a new approach to Chernoff-Savage theorems". Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 39: 755–771. doi:10.1214/aoms/1177698309. JSTOR 2239753. MR 0226770.
- Pyke, R. (1959). "The supremum and infimum of the Poisson process". Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 30: 568–576. doi:10.1214/aoms/1177706269. JSTOR 2237099. MR 0107315.
- Bass, R.F.; Pyke, R. (1984). "Functional law of the iterated logarithm and uniform central limit theorem for partial sum processes indexed by sets". Annals of Probability. 12: 13–24. doi:10.1080/00401706.1961.10489927. JSTOR 2243593. MR 0723727.
- Bass, R.F.; Pyke, R. (1987). "A central limit theorem for {$D(A)$}-valued processes". Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 24: 109–131. doi:10.1016/0304-4149(87)90032-9. MR 0883607.
References[edit]
- ^ https://www.imstat.org/honored-ims-fellows/. Missing or empty
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|title=(help) - ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_Institute_of_Mathematical_Statistics. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ^ https://opc.mfo.de/detail?photo_id=3417. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ^sin "University of Washington Department of Statistics". Strength in Numbers: the Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U.S. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3649-2_37. Search this book on
|author1-first= Michael P.|author1-last=Perlman |author2-first= Fritz W. |author2-last=Scholz |author3-first= Galen R. |author3-last=Shorack |editor1-first = A.|editor1-last=Agresti |editor2-first=X.L. |editor2-last=Meng |year=2013| publisher=Springer}}
External links[edit]
- [4] Ron (Ronald) Pyke at the Math Genealogy page
- [5] Ronald Pyke publications at MathSciNet
- [6] Ronald Pyke Obituary
- [7] Ron Pyke paper: Spacings revisited.
- [8] Ron Pyke paper: Weak convergence of two-sample empirical process.
- [9] Ronald Pyke photos at MFO
- [10] Ron Pyke, Editor of the Annals of Probability
- List of presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics IMS Past Presidents
- [11] Ron Pyke listed as IMS Fellow
- Jeffrey-Williams Prize Canadian Mathematical Society
- Jeffrey-Williams Prize Canadian Mathematical Society
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