Herbert E. Robbins

Affiliations: 
1946-1952 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 
 1953-1985 Columbia University, New York, NY 
 1985-1997 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States 
Area:
mathematical statistics
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"Herbert Ellis Robbins" OR "Herbert E Robbins"
Bio:

(1915 - 2001)
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/51192.html
https://stat.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/StatDeptHistory.pdf

Parents

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H. C. Marston Morse research assistant 1935 Harvard
Hassler Whitney grad student 1938 Harvard
 (On the Classification of the Maps of a 2-Complex into a Space)

Children

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Zhaohai Li grad student
Raghu Raj Bahadur grad student 1950 UNC Chapel Hill
Gopinath Kallianpur grad student 1951 UNC Chapel Hill
Cyrus Derman grad student 1954 Columbia (Econometree)
Milton Vernon Johns grad student 1956 Columbia
Herbert S. Wilf grad student 1958 Columbia
Richard G. Krutchkoff grad student 1965 Columbia
David O. Siegmund grad student 1966 Columbia
George P. McCabe grad student 1970 Columbia
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Levin B, Robbins H, Zhang C. (2002) Mathematical aspects of estimating two treatment effects and a common variance in an assured allocation design Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 108: 255-262
Robbins H, Zhang C. (2000) Efficiency of the u,v method of estimation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 97: 12976-12979
ROBBINS H, ZHANG C. (1991) Estimating a multiplicative treatment effect under biased allocation Biometrika. 78: 349-354
Robbins H, Zhang C. (1989) Estimating the superiority of a drug to a placebo when all and only those patients at risk are treated with the drug. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 86: 3003-3005
Robbins H, Zhang C. (1988) Estimating a treatment effect under biased sampling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 85: 3670-3672
Lalley S, Robbins H. (1988) Stochastic search in a convex region Probability Theory and Related Fields. 77: 99-116
Lalley S, Robbins H. (1987) Asymptotically minimax stochastic search strategies in the plane. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 84: 2111-2112
Robbins H. (1985) Linear empirical Bayes estimation of means and variances. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 82: 1571-1574
Lai T, Robbins H. (1985) Asymptotically efficient adaptive allocation rules Advances in Applied Mathematics. 6: 4-22
Lai TL, Robbins H. (1984) Optimal sequential sampling from two populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 81: 1284-1286
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