Mathematician:Robert Osher Schlaifer

Mathematician

American statistician who was one of the pioneers of Bayesian decision theory.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 13 September 1914
• Died: 24 July 1994

Publications

• 1936: Greek Theories of Slavery from Homer to Aristotle (Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Vol. 47: 165 – 204)
• 1943: Demon of Paeania, Priest of Asclepius (Classical Philology Vol. 38 No. 1: 39 – 43
• 1950: Development of Aircraft Engines
• 1959 : Probability and Statistics for Business Decisions: An Introduction to Managerial Economics under Uncertainty
• 1961: Applied Statistical Decision Theory (with Howard Raiffa)
• 1964: The Foundations of Decisions under Uncertainty: An Elementary Exposition (JASA Vol. 59: pp. 353 – 375) (with John W. Pratt and Howard Raiffa)  www.jstor.org/stable/2282993
• 1965: Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory (with John W. Pratt and Howard Raiffa)

Also known as

His name can sometimes be seen erroneously cited as Schlaiffer.