Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
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)







