Seymour Geisser

Seymour Geisser (October 5, 1929 – March 11, 2004) was an American statistician noted for emphasizing predictive inference.

[1] He testified as an expert on interpretation of DNA evidence in more than 100 civil and criminal trials.

He earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1955 under Harold Hotelling.

In 1971, he founded the School of Statistics at the University of Minnesota, of which he was the Director for more than 30 years.

Geisser was also the principal editor of several books of papers by multiple authors.