Donald Richards (statistician)
Donald St. P. Richards | |
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| Fields | Statistics, Probability |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University University of Virginia University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of the West Indies |
Donald St. P. Richards (born 1955, Mandeville, Jamaica) is a Jamaican statistician conducting research on matrix analysis, Markov chains, and hyper-geometric domains. He currently serves as a professor of statistics at Pennsylvania State University,[1] and is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[2][3]
Richards obtained his PhD in 1978 at the University of the West Indies, where the statistician was his doctoral advisor.[4] In 2012, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]
Personal life[]
He was married to Mercedes Richards, a Jamaican astronomy and astrophysics professor, until her death in 2016.[6]
References[]
- ^ "DLMF: Donald St. P. Richards". Dlmf.nist.gov. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- ^ "List of fellows of the American Mathematical Society". ams.org. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- ^ "IMS Awards". imstat.org. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- ^ Donald Richards at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- ^ Wright, Jason (4 February 2016). "Mercedes Richards (1955-2016)". sites.psu.edu. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
External links[]
- "Donald Richards". Penn State Eberly College of Science Department of Statistics.
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