Arthur P. Dempster
Arthur P. Dempster | |
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Dempster in 2010 | |
| Born | October 8, 1929 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | January 30, 2026 (aged 96) |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (PhD 1956) University of Toronto (BA 1952; MA 1953) |
| Known for | Dempster–Shafer theory, EM algorithm |
| Awards | Putnam Fellow (1951) ASA Fellow (1964) IMS Fellow (1963) Guggenheim Fellow AAAS Fellow (1997) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Thesis | The two-sample multivariate problem in the degenerate case (1956) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Tukey |
| Doctoral students | Augustine Kong Nan Laird |
Arthur Pentland Dempster (October 8, 1929 – January 30, 2026) was an American mathematician who was professor emeritus in the Harvard University department of statistics. He was one of four faculty members composing the department when it was founded in 1957.