Bruce George Lindsay (March 7, 1947 – May 5, 2015) was an American statistician best known for his contributions to mixture modeling and likelihood theory.
Lindsay was born in 1947 in The Dalles, Oregon.
[1] Between his undergraduate and graduate studies he has served in the U.S. Coast Guard for four years during the Vietnam War.
[2] He joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty in 1979, heading the Department of Statistics in 1998–2000 and 2006–2012 and rising to the rank of Eberly Chair in Statistics in 2012.
[1] He was elected to be a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1987, of the Guggenheim Foundation in 1996, and of the American Statistical Association in 1998.