Serge Provost (statistician)

Serge B. Provost
Academic background
EducationMcGill University
ThesisDistribution Problems Connected with the Multivariate Linear Functional Relationship Models (1984)
Doctoral advisorArak Mathai
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Western Ontario

Serge Bédard Provost[1] is a full professor in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences at the University of Western Ontario.[2]

Education and career

Provost obtained his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics and Statistics from McGill University in 1984 under the supervision of Arak Mathai.

Provost's research focuses on multivariate analysis, orthogonal series expansions, statistical modelling, complex and matrix-variate distribution theory, computational statistics and pure mathematics; for instance, they involve applications in biostatistics, financial modelling, actuarial science, operations research, time series analysis, data visualization, geometric probability, microarray experimentation, optics, life testing, environmental studies, thermodynamics, and machine learning.  He has authored or co-authored approximately 140 articles. As well, he is the co-author of four books. Parenthetically, the website of the latest one[1] which is 'Open Access', has been accessed 90,000 times between October 2022 and December 2024.

Among other distinctions, Provost is a Fellow and Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society. He is the recipient of three teaching award (2005, 2008, 2010). Along with one of his doctoral students, he received the 1996 Jacob Wolfowitz Prize for an innovative paper on the distribution of the serial correlation coefficient. He became an Associate of the Society of Actuaries in 1980.

Books

  • Mathai, A. M.; Provost, Serge B.; Hayakawa, Takesi (1995). Bilinear Forms and Zonal Polynomials. New York, NY: Springer New York. doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-4242-0_2. ISBN 978-1-4612-4242-0. OCLC 852789931.[3]
  • Mathai, A. M.; Provost, Serge B.; Haubold, H.J. (2022). Multivariate statistical analysis in the real and complex domains. Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-95864-0_13. ISBN 978-3-030-95864-0. OCLC 1347381548.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Mathai, A. M.; Provost, Serge B. (1992). Quadratic forms in random variables : theory and applications. New York: M. Dekker. ISBN 0-8247-8691-2. OCLC 24953650.[4]
  • Saboor, Abdus; Provost, Serge B.; Ahmad, Munir (2010). Univariate and Bivariate Gamma-Type Distributions. Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-3838345536.

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ Provost, Serge Bédard. "Distribution Problems Connected with the Multivariate Linear Functional Relationship Models". escholarship.mcgill.ca. A. M. Mathai.
  2. ^ "Serge Provost". University of Western Ontario.
  3. ^ Reviews of Bilinear forms and zonal polynomials:
  4. ^ Reviews of Quadratic Forms in Random Variables:
    • Harding, E. F. (1993). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. 156 (2): 326. doi:10.2307/2982749. JSTOR 2982749.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Jensen, Donald R., MR 1192786
    • Mentz, R., Zbl 0792.62045
    • Olkin, Ingram (December 1992). Journal of the American Statistical Association. 87 (420): 1244. doi:10.2307/2290674. JSTOR 2290674.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Chikuse, Yasuko (1993). Journal of Applied Statistics. 20 (4): 527–528. doi:10.1080/02664769300000053.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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