Quote of the day
The [Nobel ]prize is such an extraordinary honor. It might seem unfair, however, to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
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)







