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David O. Siegmund
David O. Siegmund
Born	November 15, 1941 (age 83); St. Louis, Missouri, US
Alma mater	Columbia University
	Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	Stanford University
Doctoral advisor	Herbert Robbins
Doctoral students	Josée Dupuis; Eleanor Feingold; Hyune-Ju Kim; Steven Lalley; Jiayang Sun; Tze Leung Lai;

David Oliver Siegmund (born November 15, 1941)^[1] is an American statistician who has worked extensively on sequential analysis.^[2]

Biography

Siegmund grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri. He received his baccalaureate degree, in mathematics, from Southern Methodist University in 1963, and a doctorate in statistics from Columbia University in 1966. His Ph.D. advisor was Herbert Robbins. After being an assistant and then a full professor at Columbia, he went to Stanford University in 1976, where he is currently a professor of statistics. He has served twice as the chair of Stanford's statistics department.^[2]^[3] He has also held visiting positions at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Zurich, the University of Oxford, and the University of Cambridge.^[2]

Siegmund has written with Herbert Robbins and Yuan-Shih Chow on the theory of optimal stopping. Much of his work has been on sequential analysis, and he has also worked on the statistics of gene mapping.^[2]

(with Y. S. Chow and H. Robbins) Great Expectations: The Theory of Optimal Stopping, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.
(with Rupert Miller) Maximally Selected Chi Square Statistics, Biometrics, 38, #4 (December 1982), pp. 1011–1016.
Sequential Analysis: Tests and Confidence Intervals, New York: Springer, 1985, ISBN 0-387-96134-8.
(with John D. Storey and Jonathan E. Taylor) Strong control, conservative point estimation and simultaneous conservative consistency of false discovery rates: a unified approach, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 66, #1 (February 2004), pp. 187–205, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9868.2004.00439.x.

^ p. 114, Reports of the president and of the treasurer, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1974.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Biography of David O. Siegmund, David Appell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101, #21 (May 25, 2004), pp. 7843–7844, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402953101.
^ David O. Siegmund, home page at Stanford University. Accessed on line September 17, 2010.
^ Siegmund, David (1998). "Genetic linkage analysis: An irregular statistical problem". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 291–300.
^ The 2023 Rao Prize Conference, the Department of Statistics, Penn State University