Meyer Abraham Girshick (born in the Russian Empire, July 25, 1908; died in Palo Alto, California, USA, March 2, 1955) was a Russian-American statistician.
From 1937 to 1946 he worked at various bureaus in the United States Department of Agriculture; he worked in the Statistical Research Group at Columbia University briefly during World War II and also worked briefly in the United States Census Bureau.
[1][2][3] Girshick joined the RAND Corporation in the summer of 1947.
[4]: §2 He became a professor of statistics at Stanford University in 1948, where he remained until his death.
[1][2][3] Girshick is known for his contributions to sequential analysis and decision theory.