Stephen Mack Stigler (born August 10, 1941) is the Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago.
[1] He has authored several books on the history of statistics; he is the son of the economist George Stigler.
His dissertation was on linear functions of order statistics, and his advisor was Lucien Le Cam.
In 2006, he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society,[3] and is a past president (1994) of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
His father was the economist George Stigler, who was a close friend of Milton Friedman.