Stephen Fienberg
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Stephen Fienberg is Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Toronto in 1964, an A.M. in Statistics at Harvard University in 1965, and a Ph.D. in Statistics at Harvard in 1968.
Fienberg has been on the Carnegie Mellon University faculty since 1980 and became a U.S. citizen in 1998. He is one of the top social statisticians in the world, and is well-known for his work in log-linear modeling for categorical data. He has authored and coauthored books on categorical data analysis, US census adjustment, and forensic science.
Fienberg has received many honors during his long and illustrious career. He is an elected member of The National Academy of Sciences, an elected Fellow of Royal Society of Canada, a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Professor Fienberg lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Joyce. He has two grown sons and three granddaughters.
