In Memory of Herman Rubin
Professor Herman Rubin (1926-2018) joined the Purdue faculty as a Professor of Statistics in 1967, having previously taught at several institutions including Michigan State University, the University of Oregon, and Stanford University. He earned his PhD (1948), MS (1945), and BS (1944) degrees from the University of Chicago. He was also an inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Professor Rubin was a prolific researcher and collaborator, publishing more than 130 papers, including several on the fundamentals of statistics that have remained in the standard texts for the fields of multivariate analysis and econometrics and inference for more than half a century.
Read Professor Anirban DasGupta's remembrance of Professor Rubin and A Festschrift for Herman Rubin, written by his colleagues and published in 2004.
The Herman Rubin Memorial Lecture honors him.
Photo credit: Herman Rubin photographed by Paul R. Halmos in 1974.
- Giving
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- Anderson and Fischer Graduate Fellowship
- George Casella Fund
- Virgil L. Anderson Scholarship Fund
- Burr Fund
- L. J. Cote M.S. Excellence in Statistics Award
- Statistics Gift Fund
- Shanti S. Gupta Professorship Fund
- Pillai Memorial Fund
- David Moore Fund
- William J. Studden Publication Award
- General Colloquium Fund
- Lucas Fund
- Bob and Marjorie McLean Scholarship Fund
- Prem S. Puri Memorial Fund
- Myra Samuels Biostatistics Fund
- Carroll Scholarship Award
- Carroll Research Award
- Herman Rubin Memorial Fund
- Kidwell Graduate Student Excellence Fund
- JK Ghosh Lecture