Lawrence D. Brown Faculty Profile
Lawrence D. Brown
Miers Busch, W'1885, Professor and Professor of Statistics
PhD, Cornell University, 1964; BS, California Institute of Technology; 1961
Research Areas
Statistical decision theory; statistical inference; nonparametric function estimation; foundations of statistics; sampling theory (census data); empirical queueing science
Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1994-present (named Miers Busch, W'1885, Professor, 1994). Previous appointments: Cornell University; Rutgers University; University of California, Berkeley. Visiting appointments: University of California, Los Angeles; Hebrew University; Technion, Haifa, Israel; Birkbeck College, London; Peking University and Chinese National academy of Sciences, Beijing
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Member, National Academy of Sciences; DSc (honorary) Purdue University, 1993; Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics; Recipient, Wilks Memorial Award (of the American Statistical Association), 2002
Professional Leadership 2005-2009
National Academy of Sciences, Section 32 Chairman (Applied Mathematical Sciences), 2000-2003
Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2005-2009
Member, NRC Select Committee to Review U.S. Census for 2000, 1998-2004; Member, NRC Committee on National Statistics, 1999-2005; Chairman, NRC Committee to Review Research and Development Statistics program at NSF, 2002-2005; Member, NRC Panel on Coverage Evaluation in the 2010 Census, 2003-present
Representative Publications
"Admissible Estimators, Recurrent Diffusions, and Insoluble Boundary Value Problems." Annals of Mathematical Statistics 42 (1971).
(with M. G. Low)
"Asymptotic Equivalence of Nonparametric Regression and White Noise." Annals of Statistics 24 (1996).
(with M.L. Eaton, D.A. Freedman and others)
"Statistical Controversies in Census 2000." Jurimetrics (1999).
(with T. T. Cai and A. DasGupta)
“Interval Estimation for a Binomial Proportion” Statistical Science 16 (2001).
(with T. Plewes and M. Gerstein)
Measuring Research and Development in the United States Economy. National Academies Press, (paperback, 194 pages), 2005.
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