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Morris H. DeGroot

Morris Herman DeGroot
Born (1931-06-08)June 8, 1931
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Died November 2, 1989(1989-11-02) (aged 58)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Fields Statistics
Institutions Carnegie Mellon University
Alma mater Roosevelt University
University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor Leonard Jimmie Savage
Doctoral students Kathryn Chaloner
M. A. H. Dempster
Prem Goel
Notable awards ASA Fellow (1966)
IMS Fellow
AAAS Fellow

Morris Herman DeGroot (June 8, 1931 – November 2, 1989) was an American statistician.

Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, DeGroot graduated from Roosevelt University and earned master's and doctor's degrees from the University of Chicago. DeGroot joined Carnegie Mellon in 1957 and became a University Professor, the school's highest faculty position.

He was the founding editor of the review journal Statistical Science.

He wrote six books, edited four volumes and authored over one hundred papers. Most of his research was on the theory of rational decision-making under uncertainty. His Optimal Statistical Decisions, published in 1970, is still recognized as one of the great books in the field. His courses on statistical decision theory taught at Carnegie-Mellon influenced Edward C. Prescott and Robert Lucas, Jr., influential figures in the development of new classical macroeconomics and real business-cycle theory. DeGroot's undergraduate text, Probability and Statistics, published in 1975, is widely recognized as a classic textbook.

DeGroot was elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the International Statistical Institute, the Econometric Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

ISBA's DeGroot Prize is named for him.


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