Charles Joel Stone

Charles "Chuck" Joel Stone (July 13, 1936 – April 16, 2019) was an American statistician and mathematician.

Charles Joel Stone
Born(1936-07-13)July 13, 1936
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
DiedApril 16, 2019(2019-04-16) (aged 82)
Alma mater
Spouse
Barbara L. Cohn
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(m. 1966)​
Children2
Scientific career
ThesisLimit Theorems for Birth and Death Processes and Diffusion Processes
Doctoral advisorSamuel Karlin
Doctoral students

Early life

Charles Joel Stone was born and raised in Los Angeles.[1] After secondary school at North Hollywood High School, Stone graduated with a Bachelor of Science in science from the California Institute of Technology in 1958.[2][3] He then matriculated at Stanford University, where in 1961 he received his PhD in statistics. His PhD thesis Limit Theorems for Birth and Death Processes and Diffusion Processes was supervised by Samuel Karlin.[4][5]

Career

From 1962 to 1964 Stone was an assistant professor in the mathematics department of Cornell University. From 1964 1981 to he was a faculty member of the mathematics department of UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), where he worked extensively with Leo Breiman (who moved to Berkeley in 1980) and Sidney Charles Port (born 1935).[1] In the statistics department of the University of California, Berkeley, Stone was from 1981 a full professor, a position which he held until his retirement as professor emeritus.[3]

When they were professors at UCLA, Stone and Breiman consulted for Technology Services Corporation in Santa Monica. Based on their work, they co-authored a 1978 technical report, Parsimonious Binary Classification Trees, Elaborating on the report, in 1984 they published, with two more co-authors, Jerome H. Friedman and Richard Allen Oshlen (born 1942), a greatly expended version entitled Classification and Regression Trees.[3]

In addition to research on statistical algorithms, Stone did research on potential theory, "local limit theorems, weak convergence of stochastic processes, and renewal theory."[3]

Stone was the advisor for 14 doctoral students, including Probal Chaudhuri, Michael P. Cohen, Mark Henry Hansen, and James Stephen "Steve" Marron.[4] Stone was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1980–1981.[6] In 1986 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley, California.[7] He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1970 [8] and a Fellow of the Class of 2013 (announced in 2012) of the American Mathematical Society. He was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.[9]

Personal life

In June 1966 he married Barbara L. Cohn in Los Angeles. They had two sons.[3]

Death

Stone died on April 16, 2019.[3]

Selected publications

Articles

Books
  • Hoel, P.; Port, S. C.; Stone, C. J. (1971). Introduction to Probability Theory. Houghton Mifflin. (textbook)
  • Hoel, P.; Port, S. C.; Stone, C. J. (1971). Introduction to Statistics. Houghton Mifflin. (textbook)
  • Hoel, Paul G.; Port, Sidney C.; Stone, Charles J. (December 1986). Introduction to Stochastic Processes. Waveland Press. ISBN 9781478608998. 1st edition. Houghton Mifflin. 1971. (textbook)
  • Port, Sidney C.; Stone, Charles J. (December 2, 2012). Brownian Motion and Classical Potential Theory. Elsevier. ISBN 9780323159081. 1st edition. 1978.[11]
  • Breiman, Leo; Friedman, Jerome H.; Olshen, Richard A.; Stone, Charles J. (1984). Classification And Regression Trees (1st ed.).
    • Breiman, Leo; Friedman, Jerome H.; Olshen, Richard A.; Stone, Charles J. (2017). ebook. Boca Raton: Routledge. doi:10.1201/9781315139470. ISBN 9781315139470. S2CID 129307201; 368 pages; abstract & table of contents{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  • Stone, Charles J. (1996). A Course in Probability and Statistics. Duxbury Press. ISBN 9780534233280.

References
  1. Stone, Charles J. (2010). "Selected recollections of my relationship with Leo Breiman". The Annals of Applied Statistics. 4 (4). arXiv:1101.0941. doi:10.1214/10-AOAS431. S2CID 62578779.
  2. "California Institute of Technology Sixth-fourth Annual Commencement Exercise" (PDF). California Institute of Technology. 1958. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  3. Olshen, Richard A.; Bickel, Peter; Evans, Steven N. (2020). "In Memoriam. Charles Joel Stone, Professor of Statistics, Emeritus, UC Berkeley". Academic Senate, University of California.
  4. Charles Joel Stone at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Charles Joel Stone". Alumni, Statistics Department, Stanford University.
  6. "Charles J. Stone". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  7. Stone, C. J. (1986). "A nonparametric framework for statistical modelling". Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, August 3–11, 1986, Berkeley, California. Vol. 2. pp. 1052–1056.
  8. "Stone, Charles J." Scientific Legacy Database, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
  9. "Charles J. Stone". Member Directory, National Academy of Sciences.
  10. "In memoriam: Charles Stone". UCLA Mathematics. April 25, 2019.
  11. Blumenthal, R. M. (1980). "Book Review: Brownian motion and classical potential theory". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 2 (3): 477–480. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1980-14774-6.
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