Lincoln Moses
Administrator of the Energy Information Administration
In office
1978–1980
PresidentJimmy Carter
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byErich Evered
Personal details
Born
Lincoln Ellsworth Moses

(1921-12-21)21 December 1921
Kansas City, Missouri
Died17 December 2006(2006-12-17) (aged 84)
Portola Valley, California
Education
Academic background
Doctoral advisorMeyer Abraham Girshick
Academic work
DisciplineStatistics
Sub-disciplineBiostatistics
Institutions
Doctoral students

Lincoln Ellsworth Moses (21 December 1921 – 17 December 2006) was an American biostatistician. He was an alumnus and faculty member of Stanford University and led the Energy Information Administration from 1978 to 1980.

Early life and education

Moses was a native of Kansas City, Missouri, born on 21 December 1921.[1][2] He attended San Bernardino Valley Junior College from 1937 to 1939, earning an associate of arts degree, then transferred to Stanford University, where he completed a bachelor of arts in 1941.[1] After completing his undergraduate studies, Moses served in the United States Navy as the United States entered World War II.[2] He returned to Stanford in 1947 as one of the first three graduate students to join the university's statistics department, and became the second student to complete his doctoral dissertation.[2][3] His dissertation, An Iterative Construction of the Optimum Sequential Decision Procedure when the Cost Function is Linear, was authored under the direction of Meyer Abraham Girshick, and published in 1951.[4]

Academic and public service career

Moses began his teaching career at Teachers College, Columbia University as an assistant professor in 1950, then joined Stanford's faculty two years later. As an assistant and associate professor within the Department of Statistics, he also held a joint appointment in the Department of Preventive Medicine. He was promoted to associate professor in 1955, and became a full professor in 1959. That same year, he also joined Stanford's Department of Research and Health Policy. Moses led the Department of Statistics at Stanford from 1964 to 1968, and concurrently served the first of two terms as dean of humanities and sciences between 1965 and 1968. From 1969 to 1975, he was dean of graduate studies, then returned to the humanities and sciences deanship between 1985 and 1986. Moses retired from Stanford in 1992.[1][2] Outside of Stanford, Moses was appointed the first leader of the Energy Information Administration by Jimmy Carter in 1977,[5] and served from 1978 to 1980.[1][2]

Honors and awards

Moses was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1960),[6] and elected to fellowship status in the American Statistical Association (1961),[7] Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1966),[8] American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1981),[9] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1982).[10] He was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine in 1975.[11]

Personal life and death

Moses was married twice, and had five biological children and four stepchildren. He died at home in Portola Valley, California, on 17 December 2006, aged 86.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Brown Jr, Byron Wm.; Hollander, Myles (August 1999). "A conversation with Lincoln E. Moses". Statist. Sci. 14 (3): 338–354. doi:10.1214/ss/1009212412. JSTOR 2676770.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Lincoln E. Moses, pioneer in biostatistics, dies at 84". Stanford Medicine. 22 December 2006. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  3. ↑ "Lincoln E. Moses". Stanford University Department of Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  4. ↑ Lincoln Moses at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ "Energy Information Administration Nomination of Lincoln E. Moses To Be Administrator". The American Presidency Project, University of California Santa Barbara. 23 November 1977. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  6. ↑ "Lincoln E. Moses". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  7. ↑ "ASA Fellows". American Statistical Association. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  8. ↑ "Honored IMS Fellows". Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  9. ↑ "Professor Lincoln Ellsworth Moses". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  10. ↑ Borras, Catherine (26 February 1982). "AAAS Council Meeting, 1982: AAAS Members Elected as Fellows, 7 January 1982". Science. 215 (4536): 1070. doi:10.1126/science.215.4536.1069.
  11. ↑ "Dr. Lincoln E Moses". National Academy of Medicine. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
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