Leonard Jimmie Savage

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Probability Theory

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Statistics

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Measure Theory

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According to Wikipedia, Leonard Jimmie Savage was an American mathematician and statistician. Economist Milton Friedman said Savage was "one of the few people I have met whom I would unhesitatingly call a genius." Education and career Savage was born and grew up in Detroit. He studied at Wayne State University in Detroit before transferring to University of Michigan, where he first majored in chemical engineering, then switched to mathematics, graduating in 1938 with a Bachelor's degree. He continued at the University of Michigan with a PhD on differential geometry in 1941 under the supervision of Sumner Byron Myers. Savage subsequently worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, Yale University, and the Statistical Research Group at Columbia University. Though his thesis advisor was Sumner Myers, he also credited Milton Friedman and W. Allen Wallis as statistical mentors.

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Leonard Jimmie Savage's Published Works

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The Foundations of Statistics (1955) (5111)
The Utility Analysis of Choices Involving Risk (1948) (2961)
Elicitation of Personal Probabilities and Expectations (1971) (1170)
The Theory of Statistical Decision (1951) (1082)
Bayesian statistical inference for psychological research. (1963) (888)
Symmetric measures on Cartesian products (1955) (707)
The Foundation of Statistics (1956) (506)
Three Problems in Rationing Capital (1955) (463)
The Expected-Utility Hypothesis and the Measurability of Utility (1952) (348)
Probability and the weighing of evidence (1951) (340)
Application of the Radon-Nikodym Theorem to the Theory of Sufficient Statistics (1949) (295)
The foundations of statistical inference : a discussion (1962) (222)
The nonexistence of certain statistical procedures in nonparametric problems (1956) (222)
The Foundations of Statistical Inference. (1963) (192)
The Foundations of Statistics Reconsidered (1961) (181)
Inequalities for Stochastic Processes: How to Gamble If You Must (1976) (159)
On Rereading R. A. Fisher (1976) (127)
Unbiased Estimates for Certain Binomial Sampling Problems with Applications (1946) (126)
Inequalitites on the probability content of convex regions for elliptically contoured distributions (1972) (118)
Bayes and Minimax Estimates for Quadratic Loss Functions (1951) (97)
How to Gamble If You Must: Inequalities for Stochastic Processes (1965) (93)
A generalized unimodality (1970) (77)
Difficulties in the Theory of Personal Probability (1967) (75)
Personal probabilities of probabilities (1975) (65)
Ordinal Preferences or Cardinal Utility (1952) (43)
How to Gamble if You Must: Inequalities for Stochastic Process. (1967) (43)
Implications of Personal Probability for Induction (1967) (39)
Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning. Volume I, Induction and Analogy in Mathematics. Volume II, Patterns of Plausible Inference. (1955) (27)
A TCHEBYCHEFF-LIKE INEQUALITY FOR STOCHASTIC PROCESSES. (1965) (25)
Probability in Science: A Personalistic Account (1973) (22)
Logic, Laws, and Life: Some Philosophical Complications. (1979) (15)
A Dynamic Problem in Duopoly (1940) (12)
Comments on a Weakened Principle of Conditionality (1970) (12)
Reading Suggestions for the Foundations of Statistics (1970) (11)
On the set of values of a nonatomic, finitely additive, finite measure (1952) (10)
Finite Stopping Time and Finite Expected Stopping Time (1965) (10)
A Uniqueness Theorem for Unbiased Sequential Binomial Estimation (1947) (9)
Samuelson's Foundations: Its Mathematics (1948) (8)
The application of vectorial methods to metric geometry (1946) (8)
On the crossing of extremals at focal points (1943) (6)
OPTIMAL GAMBLING SYSTEMS. (1960) (5)
A Game Theoretic Study of the Tactics of Area Defense (1948) (3)
Some aspects of statistical inference with applications to sample survey theory (1961) (3)
When Different Pairs of Hypotheses have the Same Family of Likelihood-Ratio Test Regions (1957) (3)
Games with Circular Symmetry (1948) (1)
A geometrical approach to the special stable distributions (1969) (1)
Errata: The Theory of Statistical Decision (1954) (0)
Psychological Review Bayesian Statistical Inference for Psychological Research ' Principle of Stable Estimation (1963) (0)
Harmonic Analysis and the Theory of Probability . Salomon Bochner. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1955. viii+ 176 pp. $4.50. (1956) (0)
Book reviews (1964) (0)
Book Review:Mathematical Methods of Statistics. Harald Cramer (1947) (0)
Review: J. R. Gregg, The language of taxonomy -- An application of symbolic logic to the study of classificatory systems (1955) (0)

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