Pascal Massart (born 23 January 1958) is a French Statistician.

Pascal Massart
Born (1958-01-23) 23 January 1958 (age 66)
CitizenshipFrance
Alma materParis-Sud University (PhD)
Scientific career
Thesis Quelques problèmes de vitesse de convergence pour des processus empiriques  (1987)
Doctoral advisorJean Bretagnolle

His work focuses on probability and statistics, notably the Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality,[1] the Bousquet inequality, the concentration inequality,[2] and the Efron-Stein inequality. With Lucien Birgé he worked on model selection.[3]

He received his Ph.D. in statistics from Paris-Sud University under Jean Bretagnolle. He has worked at the University of Paris-Sud and at the University of Lyon.

Honors and awards

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He was awarded the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1998. He was awarded the Prix Pierre-Simon de Laplace from the French Statistical Society in 2007 alongside Paul Deheuvels.[4] He was a lecturer at the European Congress of Mathematics in 2004 in Stockholm.

Books

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  • Concentration Inequalities: A Nonasymptotic Theory of Independence (2013)
  • Concentration Inequalities and Model Selection (2003)

References

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  1. ^ Massart, P. (July 1990). "The Tight Constant in the Dvoretzky-Kiefer-Wolfowitz Inequality". Annals of Probability. 18 (3): 1269–1283. doi:10.1214/aop/1176990746. ISSN 0091-1798. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  2. ^ Boucheron, Stéphane; Lugosi, Gábor; Massart, Pascal (2013). Concentration Inequalities: A Nonasymptotic Theory of Independence. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-953525-5. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  3. ^ Birgé, Lucien; Massart, Pascal (1 May 2007). "Minimal Penalties for Gaussian Model Selection". Probability Theory and Related Fields. 138 (1): 33–73. doi:10.1007/s00440-006-0011-8. ISSN 1432-2064. S2CID 6361101.
  4. ^ "Le Prix Pierre-Simon de Laplace". Société Française de Statistique. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
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