Dean P. Foster Faculty Profile

Dean P. Foster
William H. Lawrence Professor; Professor of Statistics

PhD, University of Maryland, 1988; MSc, Rutgers University, 1984; MA, University of Maryland, 1982; BSc, University of Maryland, 1980

Research Areas
Statistical inference for stochastic processes; game theory; variable selection

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1992-present (named William H. Lawrence Professor, 2007). Previous appointment: University of Chicago

Representative Publications
(with R. Stine and A.J. Wyner)
"Universal Codes for Finite Sequences of Integers Drawn from a Monotone Distribution." IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2002).

(with H.P. Young)
"On the Impossibility of Predicting the Behavior of Rational Agents" PNAS (2001).

(with Edward George)
"Empirical Bayes Variable Selection" Biometrika (2000).