Peter J. Bickel Explained

Peter John Bickel (born 1940) is an American statistician^[1] and Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.^[2] Bickel has made contributions to bootstrapping, robust statistics, machine learning, and other areas of statistics.

Education and career

Bickel studied physics at the California Institute of Technology.^[3] He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a Ph.D., in 1963, where he studied under Erich Leo Lehmann.^[4]

His students include C.F. Jeff Wu, Jianqing Fan, Katerina Kechris, Elizaveta Levina, and Donald Andrews.

Personal

He married Nancy Kramer in 1964; they have two children.^[5]

Awards

• 1970 Guggenheim Fellow^[6]
• 1973 Fellow of the American Statistical Association^[7]
• 1981 the recipient of COPSS Presidents' Award^[8]
• 1984 MacArthur Fellow
• 1986 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[9]
• 1986 Member of the National Academy of Sciences^[10]
• 1986 Honorary Doctorate degree from Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• 1995 Foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences^[11]
• 2006 Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau^[12]
• 2013 R. A. Fisher Lectureship^[13]
• 2014 Honorary Doctorate degree from ETH Zurich^[14]

Further reading

• Ritov . Y. A. . 10.1214/09-STS300 . A Random Walk with Drift: Interview with Peter J. Bickel . Statistical Science. 26 . 150–159 . 2011 . 1106.2881. 62621269 .
• Book: Biography of Peter J. Bickel. Selected Works of Peter J. Bickel. 9781461455448. Jianqing . Fan. Jianqing Fan. Ya'acov . Ritov. Chien-Fu . Wu. Chien-Fu Wu. 2012. Springer Science+Business Media.

External links

• Homepage

Notes and References

1. Web site: Biography of Peter J. Bickel. https://web.archive.org/web/20210316083006/https://orfe.princeton.edu/conferences/frontiers/Biography.pdf. 2021-03-16. Workshop on Frontiers of Statistics In honor of Peter Bickel's 65th birthday. Princeton University. May 2006.
2. Web site: Peter J. Bickel.
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=W0U57b3QG18C&dq=Peter+J.+Bickel&pg=PA125 Reminiscences of a statistician: the company I kept
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=qZMrkvtCU9QC Frontiers in statistics: dedicated to Peter John Bickel in honor of his 65th birthday
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=qZMrkvtCU9QC Frontiers in statistics: dedicated to Peter John Bickel in honor of his 65th birthday
6. Web site: Peter J. Bickel - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 2010-03-25 . 2012-08-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120819040539/http://www.gf.org/fellows/1254-peter-j-bickel . dead .
7. http://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm View/Search Fellows of the ASA
8. Web site: COPSS Awards - Recipients . 2011-05-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160312212858/http://imstat.org/awards/copss_recipients.htm . 2016-03-12 . dead .
9. Web site: Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. June 25, 2011.
10. Web site: Peter Bickel. www.nasonline.org. 2018-01-08.
11. Web site: P.J. Bickel . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 24 January 2016 . 21 May 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190521101443/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/foreign-members/3873 . dead .
12. Web site: James Francis Hannan Visiting Scholars: Professor Peter J. Bickel. Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University. 2012. 2013-12-08.
13. Web site: Fisher Lecture — Past Award Recipients. Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. 2013-12-08. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131212111828/http://nisla05.niss.org/copss/PastAwardsFisher.pdf. 2013-12-12.
14. Web site: Archived copy . 2014-12-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161118144054/https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/main/news/eth-tag/dokumente/2014/eth-tag-2014-laudatio-bickel.pdf . 2016-11-18 . dead .