Milton Sobel
Milton Sobel was professor emeritus of statistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His made notable contributions in the areas of decision theory, sequential analysis, selection and ranking, reliability analysis, combinatorial problems, and Dirichlet processes. Of particular note are his contributions in selection and ranking, sequential analysis and reliability.
He obtained his B.A. in mathematics from the City College of New York, M.A. in mathematics and Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from Columbia University.
During 1960-1975 he was Professor of Statistics at the University of Minnesota.Books