Thomas S. Ferguson
Facts
22 properties- Instance of
- human
- Place of birth
- Oakland
- Country of citizenship
- United States[7]
- Occupation
- statistician, mathematician, university teacher
- Employer
- University of California, Los Angeles (1957–present)[15]
- Field of work
- mathematics, statistics, mathematical statistics, probability theory, game theory[8][9][10][11][12]
- Position held
- professor emeritus, professor emeritus[13][14]
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley (?–1956)[16]
- Award received
- Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[18][19]
- Doctoral advisor
- Lucien Le Cam[17]
- Doctoral student
- Lynn Kuo, Qiqing Yu, Francisco J. Samaniego, Amy Lynn Biesterfeld, Matthew Aaron Carlton, Ali Benhenni, Charles E. Antoniak, Alfredo Banos, James Alan Flanigan, Craig Zachary Gilstein, Kenneth Benjamin Gray, Jr., Gaineford Joseph Hall, Jr., Chia-Jon Hong, Carl Maltz, Constantine Alexander Melolidakis, Charles Bradford Sheckells, III, James Daniel Steele, Alan John Truelove[23][24]
- Languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- Academic appointment
- UCLA Department of Mathematics, UCLA Department of Statistics
- Family name
- Ferguson
- Given name
- Thomas, Shelburne
- Imported from
- wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
- Interested in
- statistics
- Maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- Member of
- American Statistical Association (1985–present), Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1967–present)[20][21]
- Writing language
- English
- ISNI
- 0000000109364132
- VIAF cluster ID
- 112298549
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n91106151
- GND ID
- 130426520
- BIBSYS ID
- 90534865
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 125707371
- CANTIC ID
- 981058513262606706
- Canadiana Name Authority ID
- ncf12097511
- CiNii Research ID
- 1140000791674469632
- Google Knowledge Graph ID
- /g/113t4686_
- IdRef ID
- 035019484
- Libraries Australia ID
- 35998522
Show all 31 identifiers +19
- MR Author ID
- 66155
- Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
- 34508
- NACSIS-CAT author ID
- DA06208900
- NDL Authority ID
- 001254834
- NL CR AUT ID
- vse2012721908
- NLA Trove people ID
- 1178562
- NUKAT ID
- n97087092
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007272680205171
- National Library of Latvia ID
- 000128074
- National Library of Poland MMS ID
- 9810648651905606
- Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
- 06846987X
- SHARE Catalogue author ID
- 40957
- UOM ID
- 50155
- University of Barcelona authority ID
- 981058513262606706
- University of Barcelona authority ID (former scheme)
- a1277516
- Unz Review author ID
- FergusonThomasS
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJt3YbywQ9GPxmqQMh7CQq
- Yale LUX ID
- person/8dd557ca-5990-44eb-9458-b7df388ab543
- ZbMATH author ID
- ferguson.thomas-s
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Summary
Thomas S. Ferguson was born in Oakland[1]. He was born in 1929[2]. He worked as a statistician[3], mathematician[4], and university teacher[5].
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Career and Affiliations
Fields of work include mathematics[8], an academic discipline[25]; statistics[9], an academic major[26]; mathematical statistics[10], a branch of mathematics[27]; probability theory[11], a branch of mathematics[28]; and game theory[12], a branch of mathematics[29]. Positions held include professor emeritus[13], an academic title[30]. Doctoral students include Lynn Kuo[23], a statistician[31], b. 1949[32], awarded the Fellow of the American Statistical Association[33], specialised in bioinformatics[34]; Qiqing Yu[24], a university teacher[35], specialised in statistics[36]; Francisco J. Samaniego[37], a statistician[38], of United States[39], awarded the Fellow of the American Statistical Association[40]; Amy Lynn Biesterfeld[41]; Matthew Aaron Carlton[42]; and Ali Benhenni[43].
Recognition
Awards received include Fellow of the American Statistical Association[18], a statistics award[44] and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[19].
FAQs
Where was Thomas S. Ferguson born?
Thomas S. Ferguson was born in Oakland[1].
What did Thomas S. Ferguson do for work?
Thomas S. Ferguson worked as statistician[3], mathematician[4], and university teacher[5].
Where did Thomas S. Ferguson go to school?
Thomas S. Ferguson was educated at University of California, Berkeley[16].
What awards did Thomas S. Ferguson receive?
Honors received include Fellow of the American Statistical Association[18] and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[19].