George Casella (January 22, 1951 – June 17, 2012) was a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida.
His contributions focused on the area of statistics including Monte Carlo methods, model selection, and genomic analysis.
[2] He was particularly active in Bayesian and empirical Bayes methods, with works connecting with the Stein phenomenon, on assessing and accelerating the convergence of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, as in his Rao–Blackwellization technique,[3] and recasting lasso as Bayesian posterior mode estimation with independent Laplace priors.
In 2009, he was made a Foreign Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.
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