Jim Berger (statistician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jim Berger (statistician)

American statistician

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1950

Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Kansas, United States

Profession: university teacher, statistician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

James O.
Berger (born April 6, 1950 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American statistician best known for his work on Bayesian statistics and decision theory.
He won the COPSS Presidents' Award, the highest North American award in statistics, in 1985 at the age of 35.
He received a Ph.D.
in mathematics from Cornell University in 1974.
He was a faculty member in the Department of Statistics at Purdue University until 1997, at which time he moved to the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences (now the Department of Statistical Science) at Duke University, where he is currently the Arts and Sciences Professor of Statistics.
He was also Director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute from 2002-2010, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago since 2011.