Milton Sobel (August 30, 1919 – December 31, 2002) was professor emeritus of statistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
[1][2] He made notable contributions in the areas of decision theory, sequential analysis, selection and ranking, reliability analysis, combinatorial problems, and Dirichlet processes.
Of particular note are his contributions in selection and ranking, sequential analysis and reliability.
in mathematics (1940) from the City College of New York, M.A.
[1] During 1960-1975 he was Professor of Statistics at the University of Minnesota.