David Ross Brillinger (born 1937) is a statistician and

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Professor of

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at the

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. He received his PhD from Princeton in 1961 under

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. Brillinger's former doctoral students include Peter Guttorp,

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, Rafael Irizarry and Victor Panaretos.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brillinger, David Living people Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Fellows of the American Statistical Association 1937 births University of Toronto alumni Princeton University alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty American mathematical statisticians