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Lawrence D. Brown
Miers Busch Professor; Professor of Statistics


Education

PhD, Cornell University, 1964; BS, California Institute of Technology; 1961

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

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

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

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Publications
Nagaraja, C., Lawrence D. Brown, Wachter, S. (2011), Housing Price Index Methodology
Lawrence D. Brown, Hui Nie, Xie, X. (2011), Ensemble Minimax Estimation for Multivariate Normal Means
Lawrence D. Brown, Han, X. (2011), Optimal Estimation of Multidimensional Normal Means with an Unknown Variance
Berk, R., Lawrence D. Brown, Andreas Buja, Zhang, K, Linda Zhao (2011), Valid Post-Selection Inference
Wolpert, R. L., Lawrence D. Brown (2011), Stationary Infinitely-Divisible Markov Processes with Non-negative Integer Values

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Honors And Awards
Wilks Award of the American Statistical Association, 2002
Doctor of Science (Honorary), Purdue University, 1993
Lady Davis Professorship (Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem), 1988
Wald Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1985

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Brown D. Lawrence
Lawrence D. Brown
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3730 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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lbrown@wharton.upenn.edu

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Research Interests:
Statistical decision theory; statistical inference; nonparametric function estimation; foundations of statistics; sampling theory (census data); empirical queueing science