Biographical Sketch^*

Professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science. Professor Tenenbein is the former chairman of the Statistics and Operations Research Department. He has a B.S. in Mathematics and Actuarial Science from the University of Manitoba and an A.M. and Ph.D. in Statistics from Harvard University . He came to Stern in 1969. His research interests include sampling, simulation, regression analysis, and applications of statistics to actuarial problems in mortality estimation and risk theory.

Professor Tenenbein is a teaching excellence fellow and has won many teaching awards, including the New York University Distinguished Teaching Medal, the Stern Excellence in Teaching Award, the Stern Executive MBA Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Stern Undergraduate Professor of the Year. He was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association for his lifelong contributions to the Statistics profession. He is also an Associate of the Society of Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

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Selected Publications

• "New Mathematical Models of Select and Ultimate Mortality," Transactions of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 32, 1980 (with I. Vanderhoof).
• "A Bivariate Distribution Family with Specified Marginals," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 77, 1981 (with M. Johnson).
• "Analysis of Multivariate Categorical Data with Misclassification Errors by Triple Sampling Schemes," Journal of Planning and Statistical Inference, Vol. 9, 1984 (with T. Chen and Y. Hochberg).
• "Mortality Trends of Males and Females Over the Ages," Transactions of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 41, 1990 (with B.N. Berin and G.J. Stolnitz).
• "The Risk of Asset Default," Transactions of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 41, 1990 (with Albert, Vanderhoof, and Vermi).

Books and Cases

• Problem Handbook for Course 120: Applied Statistical Methods (1997). Actuarial Study Materials: Merrick, New York.
• Forecasting the Amount of Lost Sales (1997) (with Joel Steckel). Stern School of Business, New York University Case.

Course Syllabi

• B09.2405 -- Data Analysis and Modelling for Managers
• B90.3301 / C22.0014 -- Introduction to the Theory of Probability
• B90.2309 / C22.0027 -- Mathematics of Investment
• B01.1305 -- Statistics and Data Analysis
• B01.1305 -- Statistics and Data Analysis

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