JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus
Other Affiliations: Department of Statistics, Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science
Statistics Department In Memoriam
RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology, Probability
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Probability, Gambling theory, Geometry
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- Lester E. Dubins, Ashok P. Maitra, and William D. Sudderth. Invariant gambling problems and Markov decision processes. In Handbook of Markov decision processes, volume 40 of Internat. Ser. Oper. Res. Management Sci., pages 409-428. Kluwer Acad. Publ., Boston, MA, 2002.
- Lester E. Dubins. Paths of finitely additive Brownian motion need not be bizarre. In Séminaire de Probabilités, XXXIII, volume 1709 of Lecture Notes in Math., pages 395-396. Springer, Berlin, 1999.
- Lester E. Dubins. Discrete red-and-black with fortune-dependent win probabilities. Probab. Engrg. Inform. Sci., 12(4):417-424, 1998.
- Lester E. Dubins. The gambler's ruin problem for periodic walks. In Statistics, probability and game theory, volume 30 of IMS Lecture Notes Monogr. Ser., pages 7-12. Inst. Math. Statist., Hayward, CA, 1996.
- Lester Dubins, Jacob Feldman, Meir Smorodinsky, and Boris Tsirelson. Decreasing sequences of sigma-fields and a measure change for Brownian motion. Ann. Probab., 24(2):882-904, 1996.
