Education
He received a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from Cornell University in 1974.
He received a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from Cornell University in 1974.
He has also been Director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute since 2002. Berger has worked on the decision theoretic bases of Bayesian inference, including advances on the Stein phenomenon during and after his thesis. He has also greatly contributed to advances in the so-called objective Bayes approach where prior distributions are constructed from the structure of the sampling distributions and/or of frequentist properties.
He is also recognized for his analysis of the opposition between Bayesian and frequentist visions on testing statistical hypotheses, with criticisms of the use of p-values and critical levels.
National Academy of Sciences.