Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Stephen Fienberg
Born: November 27, 1942
Died: December 14, 2016 (aged 74)
Bio: Stephen Elliott Fienberg was a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department, Heinz College, and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University.
Known for:
- A Survey of Statistical Network Models (2010)
- R.A. Fisher: An Appreciation (1980)