Emanuel Parzen

Background

Parzen, Emanuel was born on April 21, 1929 in New York City. Son of Samuel and Sarah (Getzel) Parzen.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Harvard University, 1949; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1953.

Career

He has worked and published on signal detection theory and time series analysis, where he pioneered the use of kernel density estimation (also known as the Parzen window in his honor). Parzen is the recipient of the 1994 of the American Statistical Association. He then matriculated to Harvard, where he earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics in 1949.

From there, he went on to Berkeley, earning his master and doctorate degrees in mathematics in 1951 and 1953, respectively.

His dissertation, "On Uniform Convergence of Families of Sequences of Random Variables", was written under Michel Loève. Parzen went directly into academia after graduate school, first serving as a research scientist in the physics department and assistant professor of mathematical statistics at Columbia University.

He left there in 1956 for Stanford University, where he stayed for the next 14 years. During this time, he wrote what has become one of the classical texts in probability theory.

In 1970, he accepted the chair of the statistics department at State University of New York Buffalo and in 1978 moved to his current post as a Distinguished Professor at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University.

Parzen died in Boca Raton, Florida on February 6, 2016.

Achievements

• Emanuel Parzen has been listed as a notable Statistical scientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Time Series Analysis Papers

    (This collection of papers is being published in an attemp...)

  • Stochastic Processes Hardcover by Emanuel Parzen

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Statistical Institute, American Statistical Association, Royal Statistical Society, Institute Mathematics Statistics. Member American Mathematics Society, Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Bernoulli Society, New York Academy Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Carol Tenowitz, July 12, 1959. Children: Sara Leah, Michael Isaac.

Father:

Samuel Parzen

Mother:

Sarah (Getzel) Parzen

Spouse:

Carol Tenowitz

child:

Sara Leah Parzen

child:

Michael Isaac Parzen