Arthur P. Dempster

Arthur Pentland Dempster (born 1929) is a Professor Emeritus in the Harvard University Department of Statistics.He obtained his Ph.D. in mathematical statistics 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 expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm.This article about a statistician from the United States is a stub.
Brest, FrancePrinceton UniversityUniversity of TorontoDempster–Shafer theoryEM algorithmPutnam FellowGuggenheim FellowStatisticsHarvard UniversityThesisDoctoral advisorJohn TukeyAugustine KongNan Lairdexpectation-maximization (EM) algorithmThe Annals of Mathematical StatisticsJournal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series BAmerican Statistical AssociationInstitute of Mathematical StatisticsAmerican Academy of Arts and SciencesWorldCatMathematical Association of AmericaMathematics Genealogy Project