Ulf Grenander
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Ulf Grenander (23 July 1923 – 12 May 2016) was a Swedish statistician and professor of applied mathematics at Brown University.
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Ulf Grenander | |
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Born | (1923-07-23)23 July 1923 Västervik, Sweden |
Died | 12 May 2016(2016-05-12) (aged 92)[1] |
Nationality | Swedish |
Alma mater | Stockholm University Uppsala University |
Known for | Sieve estimation Pattern theory Maximum subarray problem[2] Computational anatomy |
Awards | Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics Mathematics Computer science |
Institutions | Stockholm University Brown University |
Doctoral advisor | Harald Cramér |
Doctoral students | Sven Erlander |
Other notable students | Per Martin-Löf |
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His early research was in probability theory, stochastic processes, time series analysis, and statistical theory (particularly the order-constrained estimation of cumulative distribution functions using his sieve estimator). In recent decades, Grenander contributed to computational statistics, image processing, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence. He coined the term pattern theory to distinguish from pattern recognition.[3]