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Leonard J. Savage, 1917-1971

Portrait of L.J. Savage

American mathematician and statistician, Leonard Jimmie Savage is best known for his theory of subjective probability and expected utility theory.  

 

  


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Major Works of Leonard J. Savage

  • "The Utility Analysis of Choices Involving Risk", with M. Friedman, 1948, JPE [pdf]
  • "The Theory of Statistical Decision", 1951, JASA
  • "The Expected-Utility Hypothesis and the Measurability of Utility", with M. Friedman, 1952, JPE
  • The Foundations of Statistics, 1954. [2nd ed. 1972]
  • "Symmetric Measures on Cartesian Products", with E. Hewitt, 1955, Transactions of AMS
  • "Recent Tendencies in the Foundations of Statistics", 1958, address to ICM [McT]
  • "Foundations of Statistics Reconsidered", 1961, Proc. 4th Berkeley Symposium [pdf]
  • Inequalities for Stochastic Processes with L.E. Dubins, 1965.
  • "Elicitation of Personal Probabilities and Expectations", 1971, JASA  [pdf]
  • "The Shifting Foundations of Statistics", 1977, in Colodny, editor, Logic, Laws and Life

 


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Resources on Leonard J. Savage

  • Savage page at McTutor
  • "From Wald to Savage: homo economicus becomes a Bayesian statistician" by N. Giocoli, 2011 [pdf]
  • "Leonard Savage's Mathematical Theory of Decision" by D. Surowik, 2002 [pdf]
  • "Probabilistic versus non-probabilistic decision making: Savage, Shackle and beyond" by Marcello Basili and Carlo Zappia, 2003 [pdf]
  • "Shackle versus Savage: Non-probabilistic alternatives to subjective probability theory in the 1950s", by Carlo Zappia and Marcello Basili 2005 [pdf]
  • Savage award at Intl Soc for Bayesian Analysis
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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