- Lucien Le Cam
Lucien Marie Le Cam (
November 18 ,1924 –April 25 ,2000 ) was amathematician and statistician born in Croze,Creuse ,France . He obtained a Ph.D. in 1952 at theUniversity of California, Berkeley , was appointed Assistant Professor in 1953 and continued working there beyond his retirement in 1991 until his death.Le Cam was the major figure during the period 1950 – 1990 in the development of abstract general asymptotic theory in mathematical statistics. He is best known for the general concepts of "local asymptotic normality" and "contiguity", and for introducing a notion of distance between statistical experiments, recounted in his 1986 magnum opus "Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Decision Theory".
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le Cam's theorem External links
* [http://www.imstat.org/BULLETIN/sept2000/node18.html Obituary of Lucien Le Cam]
* [http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/rice/LeCam/index.html In Memory of Lucien Le Cam]
* [http://www.stat.yale.edu/~pollard/Paris2001/LeCam-vita.pdf Lucien Le Cam cv ]
* Grace L. Yang (1999) A Conversation with Lucien Le Cam, Statistical Science Volume 14, Number 2, 223-241 available through [http://projecteuclid.org/Dienst/UI/1.0/Journal?authority=euclid.ss&issue=1009212241 Project Euclid]
* [http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=32891 Lucien Marie Le Cam on the Mathematics Genealogy Project] There are several photographs on the Oberwolfach Photo Collection including
* [http://owpdb.mfo.de/person_detail?id=5493 1973] There is one on the Portraits of Statisticians page
* [http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/people/le_cam.gifLucien Le Cam]
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