# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lawrence-d-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:25:35.362Z

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name: "Lawrence D. Brown"
slug: "lawrence-d-brown"
description: "Lawrence David (Larry) Brown was Miers Busch Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for his groundbreaking work in a broad range of fields including decision theory, recurrence and partial differential equations, nonparametric function estimation, minimax and adaptation theory, and the analysis of census data and call-center data."
tagline: "American statistician"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1940-12-16"
deathDate: "2018-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump