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Dean P. Foster
Professor of Statistics; Marie and Joseph Melone Professor


Education

PhD, University of Maryland, 1988; MSc, Rutgers University, 1984; MA, University of Maryland, 1982; BSc, University of Maryland, 1980

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 1992-present (named William H. Lawrence Professor, 2007). Previous appointment: University of Chicago.

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Publications
Dean P. Foster, H. Peyton Young (2011), Gaming Performance Fees by Portfolio Managers
Dean P. Foster, Sham M. Kakade, Orit Ronen (2011), Early Retirement Using Leveraged Investments
Sham M. Kakade, Dean P. Foster (2011), Multi-View Regression via Canonical Correlation Analysis
Dongyu Lin, Dean P. Foster (2011), The Power of a Few Large Blocks: A Credible Assumption with Incredible efficiency
Dongyu Lin, Dean P. Foster, Lyle H. Ungar (2011), A Risk Ratio Comparison of L0 and L1 Penalized Regression

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Foster P. Dean
Dean P. Foster
 472 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
3730 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215) 898-8233
dean.foster@gmail.com

Personal Website

Research Interests:
Machine learning, variable selection, statistical NLP.