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David Blackwell was born in 1961 and studied music at Edinburgh University.
Music graduate Kathy Blackwell talks to us about how her career in teaching gave her the experience needed to co-author a number of educational music books....
David Blackwell
American mathematician and statistician
For the American football coach, see David Blackwell (American football).
David Blackwell | |
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Blackwell in 1999 | |
Born | David Harold Blackwell (1919-04-24)April 24, 1919 Centralia, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | July 8, 2010(2010-07-08) (aged 91)[3] Berkeley, California, U.S. |
Education | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BA, MA, PhD) |
Known for | Rao–Blackwell theorem Blackwell channel Arbitrarily varying channel Games of imperfect information Dirichlet distribution Blackwell's informativeness theorem Bayesian statistics Mathematical economics Recursive economics Sequential analysis |
Awards | Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1965) John von Neumann Theory Prize (1979) R. A. Fisher Lectureship (1986) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Probability Statistics Logic Game theory Dynamic programming[1] |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | Some
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