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Frederick Mosteller

MathSciNet

Ph.D. Princeton University 1946

Dissertation: On some useful inefficient statistics

Advisor 1: Samuel Stanley Wilks
Advisor 2: John Wilder Tukey

Students:
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Ralph D'Agostino	Harvard University	1968	17
Persi Diaconis	Harvard University	1974	70
Stephen Fienberg	Harvard University	1968	80
Katherine Halvorsen	Harvard University	1984
Martin McIntosh	Harvard University	1996
Stanley Wasserman	Harvard University	1977
H. Sanford Weisberg	Harvard University	1974	18

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