Lawrence David (Larry) Brown (16 December 1940 – 21 February 2018)[1][2][3] was Miers Busch Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He is known for his groundbreaking work in a broad range of fields including decision theory, recurrence and partial differential equations, nonparametric function estimation, minimax and adaptation theory, and the analysis of census data and call-center data.
[4] Brown was educated at the California Institute of Technology and Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1964.
He earned numerous honors, including election to the United States National Academy of Sciences, and published widely, beginning with his Ph.D. research, which made major advances in admissibility.
He was married to Linda Zhao, a fellow statistician at the Wharton School.