Pascal Massart (born 23 January 1958) is a French Statistician.
Pascal Massart | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 January 1958 |
| Citizenship | France |
| Alma mater | Paris-Sud University (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Quelques problèmes de vitesse de convergence pour des processus empiriques (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean 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 edit
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 edit
- Concentration Inequalities: A Nonasymptotic Theory of Independence (2013)
- Concentration Inequalities and Model Selection (2003)
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Le Prix Pierre-Simon de Laplace". Société Française de Statistique. Retrieved 30 April 2020.