Milton Sobel
Milton Sobel was professor emeritus of statistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He made notable contributions in the areas of decision theory, sequential analysis, selection and ranking, reliability analysis, combinatorial problems, and Dirichlet processes. Of particular note are his contributions in selection and ranking, sequential analysis and reliability.
He obtained his B.A. in mathematics from the City College of New York, M.A. in mathematics and Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from Columbia University.
During 1960-1975 he was Professor of Statistics at the University of Minnesota.
Books
- 1985: Selected Tables in Mathematical Statistics: Dirchlet Integrals of Type 2 and Their Applications
- 1977: Selecting and Ordering Populations
- 1968: Sequential Identification and Ranking Procedures
Honors
- Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Fellow of the American Statistical Association
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- NIH Fellowship
- Elected membership in the International Statistical Institute