Steve Selvin

Steve Selvin ( * 1941 ) is a biostatistician who teaches since 1972 at UC Berkeley and research.

Selvin 1972 Staff at the School of Public Health at the University of Berkeley and went there in 1977 as head of the biostatistics department. In addition, he also served as director of the undergraduate program ( Undergraduate Studies ), School of Public Health. Besides his work at Berkeley Selvin also worked from 1990 to 1998 as a professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan and since 2005 at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

For his teaching Selvin Award from his university in 1983 with the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award and in 1998 with School of Public Health Distinguished Teaching Award. He has authored over 200 journal articles and has written several reference books in the field of biostatistics and epidemiology.

In February 1975 Selvin published a reader's letter in the American Statistician, in which he first described the so-called Monty Hall problem and a solution presented. After he had received several letters criticizing his solution he published in August of the same year a further letter to the editor entitled On the Monty Hall problem, in which he introduced a solution with conditional probabilities and there explicitly (so far missing ) formulated assumptions to moderator behavior. The title of this second letter to the editor is the first use of the name Monty Hall problem in the literature. After Marilyn vos Savant had the problem published in 1990 in her column in Parade Magazine, it became the subject of a controversial debate and resulted in numerous publications worldwide engaged in the following years with the problem.

Works (selection)

  • A Problem in Probability. The American Statistician, February 1975 (first publication of the Monty Hall problem, online copy at JSTOR )
  • On the Monty Hall problem. The American Statistician, August 1975 ( first literal mention of the name " Monty Hall problem ", online copy ( excerpt ) )
  • Statistical Analysis of Epidemiologic Data. Oxford University Press, New York, 1991, 3rd edition 2004, ISBN 0195172809
  • Modern Applied Biostatistical Methods Using SPLUS. Oxford University Press, New York, 1998, ISBN 0195120256
  • Epidemiologic analysis: a case - oriented approach. Oxford University Press, New York, 2001, ISBN 0195144899
  • Biostatistics: How it works. Prentice Hall, New York, 2004, ISBN 0130466166
  • Survival Analysis for epidemiologic and Medical Research Analysis of Epidemiologic Data. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008, ISBN 9780521895194
  • Statistical Tools for Epidemiologic Research. Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 9780199755967
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